Short VS articles

Short articles on Variable Star Astronomy:

An Introduction to Variable Star Observing

TASV J1835+383 - (A suspected variable comparison star for LL Lyr)

V1413 Aql: An Eclipsing Symbiotic Star Updated July 17th 2005

V1329 Cyg: Outburst profiles 1990-2003

Authored & Co-authored published papers:

Amateur Astronomers & Cataclysmic Variables European Southern Observatory - Messenger, June 1995
Active Galactic Nuclei Webb Society Quarterly Journal, issue 116 April 1999
UK Nova/Supernova Patrol: Recurrent Objects Programme report 1994. BAAJ 106, 3, 155-159 (June 1996)
Eclipse observations of IP Peg during outburst: Proceedings of the 158th colloquium of the IAU held at Keele University 1995. Astropysics and Space Science library, Vol 208
The 1997 outburst of BL Lacertae and detection of a 0.6 mag rapid variation. PASJ (Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan) 51, 253-256 (1999)
CR Boo: The helium ER UMa star wiith the 46.3 day supercycle. MNRAS 315, 140-148 January 2000
Intensive Monitoring of OJ287. Astronomy & Astrophysics July 2000
IBVS 4932: Detection of Supercycle in SS UMi: Normal SU UMa-type dwarf nova with the shortest supercycle. August 2000
IBVS 5120: The second supercycle of the helium ER UMa star, CR Boo. June 2001
V344 Lyr: An unusual large-amplitude SU UMa type dwarf nova with a short supercycle. MNRAS, 2001
Deep fading of the Herbig Be star MisV1147. In press (2004) PASJ
Pro-Am Astronomy: Variable Stars. Meeting Report, Cambridge 2002. Astronomy & Geophysics Aug 2002 Vol 43, issue 4.
"How to...Observe Variable Stars". BBC Sky at Night magazine, November 2005 #6
"Pulsating Red Giants and other Variable Stars". Astronomy Now magazine, November 2006
Observations of the recently discovered Dwarf Nova 1RXSJ053234.9+624755, during the 2005 March Superoutburst. JBAA Vol.116, 1 2006. Also available at Arxiv Astro-ph http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605394
CCD photometry and visual observations of V1663 Aql (Nova Aql 2005). JBAA Vol. 116, No. 6, 2006 and can also be viewed at Arxiv Astro-ph http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605650
CG Draconis. A particularly active Dwarf Novae. JBAA Vol 117, No.1, 2007 and can also be reviewed at Arxiv Astro-ph http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608081
Brief Outbursts in the Dwarf Nova V1316 Cyg. JBAA Vol. 116, No.5 2006 and can also be viewed at Arxiv Astto-ph http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605284
HR Lyrae (Nova Lyr 1919): from outburst to active quiescence. JBAA Vol. 117, No.3, 2007 and can also be viewed at Arxiv Astro-ph http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701719
Analysis of the first confirmed Superoutburst of V337 Cygni in 2006 May. JBAA Vol. 117, No. 4 and can also be viewed at Arxiv Astro-ph http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702607
Photometry of the Dwarf Nova AW Sge duirng the 2006 November Superoutburst. JBAA Vol. 118, No. 3 2008, and can be viewed at Arxiv Astro-ph http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4611
Photometry and Astrometry of SS Leo Minoris during the 2006 October Superoutburst. JBAA Vol 118, No.2 and can be viewed at Arxiv Astro-ph http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2206
The structure of the October/November 2005 outburst in OJ287 and the precessing Black Hole model. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 477 2 (2008) 407-412
A massive binary black hole system in OJ287 and a test of general relativity. NATURE (letters) Vol 452 April 17 2008 pg 851
Video interview with Prof. Boris Gaensicke and myself on V455 And (HS2331) - before the Sept. 2007 outburst! Promotional video for Warwick University Astronomy dept. (filmed in my study).