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  • 23 August 2025 at 9:57 am #631048
    Mr Ian David Sharp
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    Hi all,

    After DX And was reported as being bright (11.9) by P. B. Withers on the BAA alert group, I decided to do some photometry on this star as it seems a fascinating object. Firstly, I found it was indeed bright (now around 11.65V) and secondly I imaged it for the whole night last night from Spain and got the attached light curve. (289 x 90s exposures)

    I haven’t been able to find long-runs like this in the BAA nor the AAVSO databases. Interesting! I will follow it to see how it drops again.

    Cheers
    Ian.

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    23 August 2025 at 5:47 pm #631060
    Gary Poyner
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    Hi Ian,

    I’ve been looking at your t/s this afternoon, and it does indeed look interesting. Good stuff!

    UGSS stars tend to get overlooked for long photometric runs (with all the t/s effort saved for UGSU stars), and this has certainly been the case with DX And over the years. Keep up the monitoring if you can.

    Gary

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