Data Last Night

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Slowly I am getting into productive operation.  Last night was just fair as 
far as sky conditions go.  Haze, but no big clouds.  At 7 AM I got up and 
wrote the night's data to disk.  Then I loaded it on the production 
computer and went back to bed.   Some time later I struggled out of bed (I 
still have this awful flu) and looked at the results.  By early afternoon, 
I had identified 4 short term variables in the data.  They are pretty dim 
and don't vary a lot, so I suspect that they are all new.  I will not 
bother to look them up.

OK, I lie.  Of the four, one was a suspected variable, one was a tycho 
variable, one was not listed as variable in any of the catalogs, and one 
was in the GCVS.  So one of four looks to be new, and one will confirm 
variable status.  I guess par for the course.  The one that is not in any 
of the catalogs is actually the best one for variability.  It is a V mag 11 
star.

Tom Droege