Measuring Stellar Variability by Visual Photometry

Volume 25 number 1 (1997)

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Mary Dombrowski

36 Heyward Drive

Abstract

As a student participating in the AAVSO's Hands-On Astrophysics: Variable Stars in the Physics/Math Lab (HOA) project, I have learned how to observe variable stars, begun to understand the astrophysical reasons for stellar variability, and am now able to contribute my observations in response to AAVSO Alert Notices. My involvement in HOA was the driving force for my high school science project.