IC5070 Pelican Nebula, HOYS target 118
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Lightcurve of the week 98
This week we focus on a star in one of the least often observed HOYS target fields. The light curve shown in the above image is of the star V1787Ori. [...]
Lightcurve of the week 97
This week we have a look at the star V982Cep. It is situated in the field of NGC7129. With a most likely distance from Gaia of 734pc, the star is [...]
Lightcurve of the week 96
This week we have a detailed look at the light curve of V505Ori. This is one of the three targets in the Sigma Ori field observed by HOYS, which we [...]
Lightcurve of the week 95:
We are "celebrating" the start of UK lock-down Nr.2 (at least there are lots of fireworks outside 😊), so let's look back at the light curve of the week Nr. [...]
A HOYS participant perspective
Six years of working with amateur astronomers – an ongoing success story By: Dirk Froebrich, PI of the HOYS Project This article was originally published in Spanish in the magazine [...]
A HOYS participant perspective
HOYS contributor, Mark Phillips, explains how he has tried to automate as much of the process of acquiring HOYS data and processing it as possible. What do you do?
Lightcurve of the week 94:
For this weeks light curve we stay in the field of Sigma Ori. Indeed this area on the sky contains a large number of variable young stars which are part [...]
Lightcurve of the week 93:
This week we actually have a look at three different light curves. They are of the stars V505Ori, V510Ori, and TX Ori. These are all situated in the target area [...]
Lightcurve of the week 92:
Similar to last week we have a look back at an object that has featured before. This week it is the variable star V350Cep. The star is situated just north [...]
Lightcurve of the week 91:
This week we have a look back at an 'old friend' of the HOYS project, the unusual variable V2492Cyg. It has featured a few times as light curve of the [...]
Lightcurve of the week 90:
This week we look at the star OT Mon near the Cone Nebula. The object is a known T-Tauri star and the light curve shows that it is variable on [...]
Lightcurve of the week 89:
This week we have another look at the light curve of the long period variable V1376Cyg. This is a background giant star (Gaia distance about 4100kpc - or 13000 light [...]