U Piscis Austrini--an RR Lyrae Type Variable

Volume 29 number 2 (2001)

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Rod Stubbings

Drouin Observatory 19 Greenland Drive Drouin, Victoria 3818 Australia

W. S. G. Walker

Wharemaru Observatory P. O. Box 173 Awanui 0552 New Zealand

Abstract

We present visual and CCD observations which show that the previously unclassified star U Piscis Austrini is an RR Lyrae type variable with a period of 0.54187 day. There does not appear to be a secondary beat period.