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Walter's LogBook |
| Sun/Mon, August 17/18, 2003 |
More variables! Session was from 22:30 to 05:00. I visited the following variables:
| 1 | CY Lyr | 6 | V1316 Cyg | 11 | IP Peg | 16 | FO And |
| 2 | V344 Lyr | 7 | V503 Cyg | 12 | DX And | ||
| 3 | V493 Lyr | 8 | V516 Cyg | 13 | XY Psc | ||
| 4 | V1454 Cyg | 9 | EF Peg | 14 | TY Psc | ||
| 5 | EY Cyg | 10 | V368 Peg | 15 | AR And |
Borg Cubes
While playing with the variable star settings in ECU, I discovered some rather interesting features of the "distribution" of variable stars: in the Sagittarius region there are areas that look like Borg Cubes; there are similar concentrations around M42 and M45. These are areas that have been intensively survied by professional astronomers, much more so than the rest of the sky. The newly emerging automated sky surveys should bring the rest of the sky up to these levels of coverage in the years ahead!
