[Aavso-photometry] 041230 Transit Campaign Update

[Aaron Price]

  Thanks to all who have been observing the fields despite terrible
weather over much of the best observing sites, a bright Moon and the
holiday season.  Special thanks to Tim Crawford (CTX), Arto Oksanen
(OAR), Tom Richards (RIX), Brad Walter (WBY), Gary Walker (WGR), and
Gary Boyd (BDG)  for sending their data sets in already. I have
created light curves for each of their observations and posted them,
along with our regular info, at our transit campaign web page:

                                  http://www.aavso.org/news/transits.shtml

   So far visual inspection of the the light curves show no evidence
of a transit. Gary reported an interesting brightening in his
observations but it isn't support by Arto's data set and there are
other trends in the light curve that need to be worked out. Plus we'll
run the data through the standard statistical procedures after it all
has come in.

    Our partner at Transitsearch.org, Dr. Greg Laughlin, sends
"everybody year-end Holiday greetings" and is thankful for the
observations. Now it is time to turn our focus to HD 74156. The
estimated amplitude is less than .01 magnitude so precision is key
with this one. The window for that transit peaks on January 1 followed
by a smaller window for HD 37605 again on Jan. 3.  Good luck!

-- 
Aaron
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