HUNTING OUTBURSTING
YOUNG STARS

We usually look at different stars each week, but this week we make an exception. In last weeks post, we looked at the young star RW Ori which is situated [...]

This week we have a look at the young star RW Ori, which is situated in the sigma-Ori target field of HOYS. The object is known as an Orion [...]

Just over a year ago we looked at the light curve of the star TT-Ori, which was announced as the Gaia alert object Gaia22ehy. So it is time to [...]

This week we have a timely look at a newly (Nov 4) Gaia identified variable in one of our fields, but stay with last weeks theme of discussing caution [...]

The light curve shown above looks very interesting. The seems to increase its variability over time, especially in the shorter wavelengths filters. However, it turns out that this is [...]

This is the 250th issue of our weekly feature. Coincidently: Today, exactly 9 years ago (24.10.2014), we held our inaugural HOYS workshop with some amateur astronomers from Kent. Hence: [...]

This week we look at another old friend of this feature, the star GM Cep. It is situated in the Elephant Trunk Nebula target region. We wrote about the [...]

This week we are looking at the I-Band light curve of the young star T Ori. This is a slightly massive (a few solar masses) young star in the [...]

A message from Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland? On a recent visit to the island of Arran in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland we took time to [...]

Winter is coming and hence our targets from the 'Winter' list are starting to be observable. While this is not yet very evident for the Northern hemisphere observers, the [...]