Newsletters

The VSS Newsletter is usually published four times a year. It provides project leaders with the opportunity to publish interim results and project information and for members to report on activities. It includes regular sections on publications, hardware and software relevant to variable star observers. You can filter the list by year by clicking on the links to the right.

VSS Newsletter – October 2017

/ 2017
  • From the director – Mark Blackford
  • The one day period phenomenon – Stan Walker
  • RY Tuc : A study of the region – Mati Morel
  • Z Sag – a hump Mira with a strange colour curve – Stan Walker
  • Congarinni observatory – part 3 – Mark Blackford
  • The early ejection sequence of classical novae — Carl...

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VSS Newsletter – July 2017

/ 2017
  • From the directors – Stan Walker & Mark Blackford
  • NGC 288 – V1 : A new lightcurve – Mati Morel
  • R Tel – a Mira star with fairly consistent humps – Stan Walker
  • The mass function in binary star astrophysics – E Budding
  • Notes on 42 problematic Innes stars – Mati Morel
  • Visual observing with ‘...

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VSS Newsletter – April 2017

/ 2017
  • From the director – Stan Walker
  • NGC 288-V1: a SR variable in a globular cluster – Mati Morel
  • Congarinni Observatory – Part 2 – Mark Blackford
  • An update on QZ Carinae – Stan Walker
  • The Stellar Detective IV – Tom Richards
  • Visual observations of the 2015 eclipse of BL Tel – Peter F Williams...

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VSS Newsletter – January 2017

/ 2017
  • From the director – Stan Walker
  • Clive Rowe & the Auckland Observatory – Stan Walker
  • Notes on S CMa and Z Pup – Mati Morel
  • Congarinni Observatory – Part 1 – Mark Blackford
  • Experimantal modelling of bright southern EBs II – Col Bembrick
  • Colour measures of hump stars – Stan Walker
  • The ste...

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