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 3rd 2011

V1329 Cyg:  Outburst profiles 1990-2003  

Dwarf Novae from the Hamburg Quasar Survey (PDF)   Presented at the 'TA' AGM, Wakefield October 2010

• 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 PASJ  56, S183-S192, 2004 March  http://pasj.asj.or.jp/v56/sp1/56s116/56s116a.html
• 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 during 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
• The 2008 outburst of the cataclysmic variable V358 Lyr.  JBAA Vol. 120, No. 1 February 2010.  Available at Arxiv Astro-ph arxiv:0905.1866
• Tidally induced outbursts in OJ 287 during 2005-2008.  ApJ  698 (2009) 781-785 (Abstract))
• CCD photometry of the first observed Superoutburst of KP Cassiopeia in 2008 October. JBAA Vol. 120, No. 1 February 2010.  Available at Arxiv Astro-ph
• GSC2.3 N152008120 - a new SU UMa type dwarf nova in Draco.  JBAA Vol 119, No. 5 October 2009
• The 2009 outburst of V630 Cassiopeiae.  JBAA Vol. 120 No. 3 2010. Also available at Arxiv Astro-ph http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1326
• HS2325+8205 - An ideal laboratory for accretion disk physics.  PASP 124: 204-211 2012 March.  Available at Arxiv Astro-ph here
• HS2325+8205 - a frequently outbursting Dwarf Nova.   JBAA Vol. 121, No. 5 October 2011

• 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).