NP Pavonis: A Misplaced Cycle (Abstract)

Volume 31 number 2 (2003)

Avelino A. Alves

Alexandre Amorim

Abstract

(Abstract only) Many far-southern eclipsing binaries have been neglected since publication of the original papers announcing their minima prediction elements. NP Pavonis is an exception. Good quality photoelectric photometry data were obtained in 1984 and again in 1995 and were used to refine the period. However, the number of elapsed cycles in that eleven-year interval was miscalculated. Persistent visual observation reveals this error and provides corrected elements.