[AZ-Observing] Mira still bright
- From: Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:26:25 -0700 (MST)
Since we have a clear evening, there's no excuse not to step
outside and see Mira getting close to an historic maximum. I'm making
it about mag. 2.1 or even 2.0, but very close now in brightness to
alpha Arietis. The AAVSO lightcurve, which goes back "only" to 1858,
shows a few maxima as bright as 1.8 or 1.9. There was an extraordinary
maximum in 1779 when it got up to mag 1.2, nearly as bright as
Aldebaran.
Jeff Hopkins is getting reliable calibrated photometry, right? B-)
\Brian
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