Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Back in quiescence

Bob Koff has just sent me the observation indicating that RZ LMi is in quiescence at magitude of 16.7.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

End of the superoutburst?

The combined data of David Boyd, Pawel Kankiewicz and Bob Koff show interesting standstill followed by a quick decrease of the brightness indicating most probably the end of the superoutburst.

Friday, February 20, 2009

What a coverage!

Bob and Jerry again sent me their latest results. I can show you now the light curve of the present superoutburst. It looks great.

Nice superhumps again

Bob Koff and Jerry Foote sent me their long runs from last night. Their combined light curves are shown below.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Very long run

For the first time we have worked as almost Whole Earth Telescope. Below you can find the light curve combined from observations of David Boyd, Bob Koff, Kosmas Gazeas and again Bob. I still wait for the data from Pawel Kankiewicz who is observing now in Kielce and will add some points at the end of the curve.

Monday, February 16, 2009

More nice superhumps

Bob Koff has just sent me his last run containing very nice superhumps shown below with points obtained by David Boyd. We can see the clear shift comming most probably from using different comparison stars.

Nice superhumps

According to the data of David Boyd, RZ LMi is showing clear superhumps and still rising. Indeed the current position on the global light curve with mean magnitude of 14.3 suggests that the star should brighten to around 14.0 mag which is typical for the begining of the superoutburst.