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[vsnet-obs 353] CY UMa



The following message has been received from Bill 
Worraker.  He can be contacted at  

bill.worraker@aea.orgn.uk

The timing accuracy is +/- 2 seconds.

Regards,
Gary Poyner

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Last Wednesday night (March 22/23) I attempted to detect 
superhumps in CY UMa by standard visual means. Formal 
details are below:

Instrument: 0.26m refl.
Sequence: TA 890422
Method: Pogson step, using star C as the sole comparison 
throughout

        Time(UT)     JD-2449000     mv     Class
Mar 22  23:24:50      799.4756     12.4      1
    22  23:49:15      799.4925     12.4      1
    23  00:01:59      799.5014     12.4      1
    23  00:16:54      799.5117     12.3      1
    23  00:29:34      799.5205     12.2      1
    23  00:42:22      799.5294     12.3      1
    23  00:52:37      799.5365     12.3      1
    23  01:02:24      799.5433     12.3      1
    23  01:15:58      799.5528     12.3      1
    23  01:28:40      799.5616     12.3      1
    23  01:55:17      799.5801     12.4      1

Notes: The rise between about midnight and 0h30m was 
quite striking. The estimates at 0h29m and the following 
two may have been a shade (0.05 mag?) too faint - that's 
a limitation of a method with steps of 0.1 mag.

I wonder if anyone else was observing superhumps in CY 
UMa the same night, either visually or with a CCD; I 
would be most interested to get a cross-check on my 
results. (Isolated estimates would not really be useful 
for this purpose because of differences between 
observers).

Comments?

Regards,
Bill