IC5070 Pelican Nebula, HOYS target 118
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Lightcurve of the week 126
This week we look at another young star called TY Ori. It is situated in the Sigma-Ori target field of HOYS. This is a fun field as it contains a [...]
Lightcurve of the week 125
We are celebrating the 125th edition of the light curve of the week feature by looking back at an old friend - GM Cep. This is a known variable of [...]
Lightcurve of the week 124
This week we have a look at the variable young star NZ Mon. It is situated in the south of the NGC2264 star forming region. This young cluster harbours numerous [...]
Lightcurve of the week 123
This week we investigate another object in the auxiliary data. We look at the known eclipsing binary star V2772Cyg, which has a distance of about 3kpc. The period of the [...]
Lightcurve of the week 122
This week we are looking again at a southern hemisphere target. The object is known as 2MASS08294005-4146097. Not much is known about the source, but it is listed as a [...]
Lightcurve of the week 121
For this week we keep with the theme of giant stars and return to our auxiliary HOYS data set from the Cygnus Project. The phase folded light curve shown is [...]
Lightcurve of the week 120
This week we have a look at another Mira type variable star. It is the star V809Ori in our Lambda-Ori target field. The object is clearly a background star, but [...]
A HOYS participant perspective
50 talks about HOYS to amateur astronomy societies By: Dirk Froebrich, PI of the HOYS Project Last night I gave the 50th talk about the HOYS project. This one was [...]
Lightcurve of the week 119
This week we have a look at a long term variable star in the P Cyg target field of HOYS. The star in question is V434Cyg, which is classified as [...]
Lightcurve of the week 118
The HOYS winter target that is visible the longest each spring is NGC2264 (The Christmas Tree Cluster). Within it there is a large variety of young and variable stars. Amongst [...]
Lightcurve of the week 117
This week we look at the star BE Ori, in our L1641N target field. This is one of our most southern fields in Orion and has now set for the [...]
Lightcurve of the week 116
This week's featured light curve is not a young star. Instead we are looking at the Mira type variable, KS Cyg. These type of stars are pulsating giants with periods [...]