Stars to Look At

[Thomas Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Here are some stars that look variable to me from the TOM3 data.  Data that
I used to find these should be in the data base now or soon.  High latitude
searchers are warned that there is a tree branch that sticks down about one
and a half degrees into the north pole data.  So if you see a variable in
this region with a 24 hour period, you might consider what a tree branch
might do.

Here is my list, typed in by hand so there may be typos:

16 36 21.0 +64 33 37 LPV
16 38 23.4 +65 18 48 SPV
19 39 44.6 +67 37 54 SPV
17  07 12.8 +63 21 21 LPV
17 24 26.9 +64 12 23  SPV
17 25 40.8 +59 15 31 SPV
17 35 26.0 +54 46 43 LPV
17 36 40.3 +54 31 38 LPV
17 44 00.3 +70 15 32 SPV
18 05 30.3 +69 45 15 SPV
18 23 37.0 +62 12 25 LPV
18 26 15.8 +68 21 31 LPV
18 54 42.4 +63 35 55 LPV
19 32 30.9 + 63 39 01 LPV

Where LPV means possible Long Term Variable and SPV means possible short
term variable.  These are from a list of 26 where the rest were found to be
on various variable lists.  It is encouraging that the same cut that found
these stars also found 12 known or suspected variables.

Tom Droege