[Aavso-photometry] BZ UMa Update: 050118

[Shawn Dvorak (RHO)]

I just started a run on BZ UMa, and will get at least a couple of hours. 
It's faded quite a bit, sitting at about v = 13.45 at 02:50 UT.

Shawn (DKS)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Price" <aprice at gmail.com>
To: <aavso-photometry at aavso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 9:22 PM
Subject: [Aavso-photometry] BZ UMa Update: 050118


> Greetings, intrepid observers.  A few gaps are beginning to show in
> our coverage. We can't let this happen! Please get out there and
> observe as long as you can! We're probably in the middle of the
> decline  with only ~2 days left in the outburst. It currently is in
> the 13's and dropping by 1.7-1.8 mags per day (thanks to QNK and BDG's
> latest data and analysis). Remember to increase your SNR as it drops.
> Time resolution is not as important as precision. Also, you now have
> leave to go unfiltered if you must. :)
>
> The decline thus far has been very interesting. No superhumps, but
> lots of nice flares and structure. Mike Koppelman (KMP) has created an
> average flux light curve showing some of the structure which we put
> online along with new light curves at our web page (below).
>
> Keep flooding me with data!
>
> http://www.aavso.org/news/bzuma2.shtml
> (chat room will remain open until end of Thursday)
>
> -- 
> Aaron
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