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VSS Officers

Director: Jeremy Shears Assistant Director: Gary Poyner Secretary: Bob Dryden Chart Secretary: John Toone Pulsating Stars Coordinator: Shaun Albrighton Nova/Supernova

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Variable Star Section Meeting 2025

A VSS meeting will take place on Saturday October 25 in Northampton. We are very fortunate to have Northamptonshire Natural

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Variable Star Section Circular for December 2024

Variable Star Section Circular 202 is available for download here. Contents From the Director CV & E News. Gary Poyner

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Preparing for the next eruption of the recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis!

T CrB is one of 10 known galactic recurrent novae and was observed in eruption in 1866 and 1946. The

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Figure 1 BAAVSS lightcurve of the Long Period Variable (LPV) Omicron Ceti (Mira)_

Variable Star Section Meeting

Saturday September 2nd, 2023 – Northamptonshire Natural History Society The Humfrey Rooms, 10 Castilian Terrace, Northampton NN1 1LD See below

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Contact the Variable Star Section

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Contact the Variable Star Section

Please use the form below to contact the Section Director. If you wish to submit your observations to the section,

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Variable Stars

Section Officers

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Two Variable Stars in the Northern Crown – Webinar

The subject of this week’s webinar will be Two Variable Stars in the Northern Crown given by Dr Jeremy Shears, the BAA

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Eclipse Predictions

Mid-Eclipse predictions for Eclipsing Binaries and Cataclysmic Variables   Useful and up to date information on eclipses can be obtained

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