Saturday, February 18, 2012

Urban Binocular Variable Star List

A few months ago, I decided to create a list of variable stars observable with my binoculars from city. I started with downloading data for variable stars reaching at least 7.5 magnitude brightness from VSX variable star catalog as explained here. After downloading the data, i filtered out supernovae and novae except recurrent novae. Then removed variable stars with magnitude change less than 0.4. Afterwards i excluded all stars without "V" or photographic magnitude data. Finally i removed suspected variables.
The resulting list can be found here.
The list contains data for 638 variable stars and i hope it helps you to find variable stars to observe.

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