> Are the various sorts of variation for this star not in the paper by > Hall et al.? > > 1991AJ....102.1808H > HALL D.S., FEKEL F.C., HENRY G.W. and BARKSDALE W.S. > Astron. J., 102, 1808-1812 (1991) > The 11 year history of starspots on V1149 Ori = HD 37824. Thanks, Brian, I didn't even think of researching the ADS assuming that no other data were available...] It is interesting to note that the GCVS lists it as a 7.2 mag. star in V, which is not right. The paper you mentioned mentions periods in the order of 51.1 to 54.4 d. and a double humped light curve. I had forgotten that possibility. The 27.5 days period I metnioned agrees wel then with the longest value reported and the mean 53.58 days found. I think that the lesson is probably: don't forget to check all soureces before assuming you are deling with something "new". I was used to work with Hipparcos EB's with no other data and that caused this mistake. Thanks !! I will not waste more time in this one... regarding the Cutispoto study and the comparison star HD 37741, given as 8.20 while the SAAO photometry gives 8.175, explains why I had to correct for a 0.03 mag. difference between Hipparcos dataset and Cutispoto's data. The right value is then the one by SAAO. The total range is then V= 6.61 - 7.01 (this minimum from Olsen E.H. (1993) Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 102, 89, Stromgren four-colour uvby photometry of G5-type HD stars brighter than mv = 8.6.) Regards, Sebastian. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://vsnet.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.423 / Virus Database: 238 - Release Date: 25/11/02