BAA VSS
Section Meeting
Saturday 15th October 2011
Monton House Hotel, Eccles, Manchester
PDF's and Powerpoint Presentations are highlighted
PROGRAMME
10.00 am - Tea/ Coffee - Registration
10.20 am - Welcome, Roger Pickard, Director BAA VSS
10.30 Des Loughney, The International Eps Aur Campaign - photometry. (Powerpoint)
10.50 Robin Leadbeater, The International Eps Aur Campaign - spectroscopy. (PDF, see here for animations)
11.10 Professor Tom Marsh, Planets around evolved stellar systems. (PDF 5mb)
12.10 Tony Markham, The VSS Facebook pages. (Powerpoint)
12.15 Lunch break
14.00 Andy Wilson, The BAA VSS Database. (PDF)
14.10 Stan Waterman, Finding new variable stars in Auriga. (Powerpoint)
15.00 John Toone, The AAVSO Centenary Meeting. (PDF)
15.20 Tea Break
16.00 Professor Don Kurtz, Planets and Pulsation: the New Keplerian Revolution.
17.00 Open Session
Gary Poyner - V1413 Aql and the BAA Polar Programme (PDF)
Dr. David Boyd - HS1857+7127 (Powerpoint)
David Boyd, BAA President, spoke briefly about his observations of
HS1857+7127, a dwarf nova varying between mags 14 and 17.5 which is under
investigation by the AAVSO's Z Cam campaign. He had recorded six eclipses
of depth 0.15mag during recent outbursts from which times of eclipse
minimum had been obtained and a new ephemeris calculated. This enabled
knowledge of the orbital period to be improved from 272.317(1)m to
272.31866(6)m.
17.30 Close