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Lightcurve of the week 176
We have now started the database recovery and we will update everyone about the progress tomorrow via our social media accounts. While this is progressing, we have another look back [...]
Lightcurve of the week 175
While we are working on restoring the database, we have another look back at one of our earliest light curves. This week at the 8th post in the series, which [...]
Lightcurve of the week 174
With our database unavailable due to investigations of a corrupt data entry, let's have a throwback Thursday. Hence, let's look back at the very first light curve of the week, [...]
Lightcurve of the week 173
We stick with the winter targets for this week and look at the long term light curve of the object AH Ori. This is a know young variable star of [...]
Lightcurve of the week 172
This week we look at a young star in the NGC2264 star forming region - the Christmas Tree Cluster. This field has now set for observations, but will return in [...]
Lightcurve of the week 171
Similar to last week, we have a look at an object we investigated before to see how it is 'behaving'. We have a look at the young star GM Cep [...]
Lightcurve of the week 170
This week we revisit one of the objects we looked at before. The young variable star V982Cep in the NGC7129 star forming region. This region is very well placed (far [...]
HOYS-LCO2 Picture Competition
Our teacher training program HOYS-LCO2 is slowly coming to an end. This year 49 teachers from 11 countries signed up to learn how to observe with the LCO telescope network, [...]
Lightcurve of the week 169
This week we look again, at one of the Gaia alerts that occurred in one of our fields. This one, Gaia22bfj, was published on April 1st (no joke) in the [...]
Lightcurve of the week 168
After many weeks of looking at light curves of young stars, we return to one of the other types of variable objects found in the HOYS data - Giant Stars. [...]
Lightcurve of the week 167
The observing season for our Winter targets is slowly coming to an end - the Summer targets are now rising shortly after midnight. Thus, we have a look at an [...]
Lightcurve of the week 166
This week we look back at the light curve of the Gaia alert object Gaia17bpi. The object increased its brightness by about 4 magnitudes over a period of about three [...]