Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The end

Dear Friends,

The RZ LMi 2009 Campaign is officially closed. Thank you very much for your observations, spending your time for the reduction and sending the data. You did a great job which will turn into nice
paper in close future (I hope).

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

More superhumps

Jerry Foote sent more nice superhumps from current superoutburst of RZ LMi.
The star was still brightening.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Superhumps!

Bob Koff, in spite of bright Moon, nicely traced the birth of the superhumps. Enjoy!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Bob caught it

Bob Koff has just sent me his observations indicating that RZ LMi is going to the superoutburst. During his run the star brightened from 14.9 to 14.7 mag. There is no trace of superhumps yet.
Keep observing!

Missed again

Looks like we missed the begining of the superoutburst again...

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

RZ LMi in outburst

Newst data sent by Bob Koff indicate that RZ LMi is in the ordinary outburst. Tomorrow it should be going into quiescence and a day after tomorrow we might expect begining of the superoutburst.

It appeared that Bob wasn't in fact the last of the Mohicans. I obtained some data from David Boyd, Kosmas Gazeas and Marcin Wardak covering last few days. The light curve is updated.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

The last of the Mohicans

Our the last of the Mohicans - Bob Koff, who is still observing RZ LMi, reports that the star is back in quiescence after short ordinary ourburst. We expect one more ordinary outburst and then the superoutburst we wait for. If we want to catch its begining we should restart our campaign within two days or so.