[vsnet-chat 4870] Re: [AAVSO-DIS] Where is MMO 705?

["mbald00" <mbald00@hsonline.net>]

The GCVS indicates that Margaret Harwood also wrote an article on CF Sct
published in the Leiden Annals, 21, No. 8, 387, 1962.  Might be a clue
there.

Marv Baldwin
Butlerville, IN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Bedient" <bedient@hawaii.rr.com>
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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 5:02 AM
Subject: Re: [AAVSO-DIS] Where is MMO 705?


> I'm wondering if it might be CF Sct, B1900 position 18 43 00.6 -08 28 43
> (about .5 degrees away from the position given for MMO 705).  It's listed
in
> the GCVS as ranging from 13.4 - 15.0, period 31.9415 days - pretty close.
> Another possibility might be FM Sct, B1900 position 18 45 25.5 -08 38 05.
> Its period is given as 1.451404 days, which is almost exactly 1/22 the
> period given for MMO 705 in IBVS 512.
>
> I'm no expert, just browsing VizieR late at night....
>
> Jim Bedient
> Honolulu, HI
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mati Morel" <morel@ozemail.com.au>
> To: <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>;
> <aavso-discussion@informer2.cis.McMaster.CA>
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 6:57 PM
> Subject: [AAVSO-DIS] Where is MMO 705?
>
>
> > While browsing through some old issues of IBVS, I came upon number 512
> (1971
> > January 28), in which L.J.Robinson and M. Harwood report the discovery
of
> a
> > new long-period eclipsing binary, provisional name MMO 705. I assume MMO
> > means "Maria Mitchell Observatory".  The star is located, according to
> IBVS
> > 512, at (1900) 18h45.0m  -8° 35'.  The basic parameters of this system
> seem
> > well established - range 13.3-15.6p,  period 31.9384d. A small finder
> chart
> > is given.  However when I compared it with a Guide7 plot it did not
match
> > very well. I checked other possible positions, north and south, to no
> avail.
> > The coordinates seem to be in error.
> >
> > Interestingly, no matching variable could be found in the GCVS, in
Scutum
> or
> > nearby constellations.  It appears that MMO 705 is yet to receive a GCVS
> > name; possibly the identification problem was noticed years ago, and is
> yet
> > to be solved.
> >
> > Does anyone have further information on MMO 705?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mati Morel
> >
> > morel@ozemail.com.au
> > http://vsnet.ozemail.com.au/~morel
> >
> >
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