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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 03:19 PM
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Astronomers Looking for Help with Cataclysmic Variable Star
Summary - (Aug 29, 2005) Amateur astronomers are helping unravel mysteries about about a strange binary star system. Even though space and ground-based observatories will be observing the cataclysmic variable star AE Aqr, astronomers are calling on amateurs to make additional observations as well. AE Aqr consists of a red dwarf feeding material to a white dwarf companion star. Instead of striking the white dwarf, this material is flung out of the system by the star's intense magnetic field. Amateurs are being asked to observe this object every night until September 3.

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Any DUers set up to do backyard CCD photometry? I sort of wish I was!
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 06:44 PM
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1. I would love to help with it, but it looks kind of heavy. It may not fit
in my garage.

I will leave open the question of whether I know any celestial mechanics.
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