DX And

[Mr Ian David Sharp]

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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   20250822_DX-And_V_PixelSkies-C11_IDS_plot_lines_check.png
   

[Gary Poyner]

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

[Mr Ian David Sharp]

Gary Poyner wrote:

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

Thanks Gary,

Got it again last night – see attached. I think the peak might have been the previous night as it’s fainter by about a tenth of a mag.

Will keep at it…

Ian.

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   20250823_DX-And_V_PixelSkies-C11_IDS_plot_lines_check.png
   

[Mr Ian David Sharp]

I also did a Generalised Lomb-Scargle period analysis in Peranso (Using my long run on 22nd). It seems there is a periodic strong component of about 0.07 days.
See attached.

Cheers
Ian.

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