Interesting TASS Object

["Knowles, Richard (CORP, Consultant)" <Richard.Knowles@corporate.ge.com>]

All,

For the past several weeks I've been working with getting Michael Richmond's
pipeline up and running
and doing some data reduction using disks from Tom Droege and Tom's
collect_stars.pl.

During this process I have came across an object which to me appears to be a
variable star.  I've looked at
what materials I have access to via the web (Simbad and a couple other less
comprehensive sources)
but haven't been able to find any direct references to this object.  Tom and
I have discussed this and I've
been waiting until I could get several data sets before saying anything.

The object is at RA: 72.7925 DEC: +7.7155 degrees.  I have three separate
data sets which cover it
and they all show Variable Star like behavior.  (See attached GIF's)  Please
forgive the formatting.

It looks like the star varies between V=10.3 to V=10.5 and back again.  My
guess at the period is that it
is around 24hrs or so judging from the behavior I see.

Is this anything new or am I just reporting wilted lettuce?  Also, if anyone
else has observations for
this object, I'd appreciate it if they'd share.

Rich Knowles

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