Epsilon Aurigae Campaign 2009

How To Contribute To The Campaign

You can contribute to the Campaign and web site by several means. You can post questions and answers that will be included in the periodic News section. You can contribute data, photometric, spectroscopic, polarimetry or other data. Please join the campaign first and supply the requested data for your observatory.

To contribute data please use the following suggestions. Send your data as a tab delimited text document and as an email attachment to Jeff Hopkins [email removed].

Photometric Data

For photometric data please do differential photometry and use lambda Aurigae as the comparison star. Please have your system calibrated and reduce the data to the standard system. Please supply data in the following suggested format.

Observer Name
Campaign ID Number
Observatory
Location

Latitude
Longitude
Elevation
Country

Instrumentation Information

Double Date (the evening date and the next morning date)

HJD (to 4 places for the approximate middle observation)

UT of each data point
Air Mass of each data point
Magnitude normalized to lambda Aurigae for each band
Number of Observations for each Band
Standard Deviation of Observations for each Band

Conditions

 

Sample Submission Form for Photometric Data

Observer: Jeff Hopkins
ID #: CID# 001
Observatory: Hopkins Phoenix Observatory
Location
Latitude: +33d 30' 06"
Longitude: 112d 13' 22" west
Elevation: 1090 Feet
Country: USA

Instrument: UBV Photon Counting (1P21)
HV: -950 VDC
Aperture: 93"
Gate Time: 10 Seconds
Telescope: C-8

Double Date: 19/20 April 2006
HJD: 2,453845.3456

Conditions: 70 degrees F, light wind, no moon, clear.

Spectroscopy

TBD

Polarimetry

TBD