RS Sge Observations and Preliminay Analyses (Abstract)

Volume 39 number 1 (2011)

Jerry Horne

3055 Lynview Drive, San Jose, CA 95148; jhorneva@hotmail.com

Abstract

(Abstract only) New V-, B-, Ic-, and R-band photometry of RS Sge were obtained using AAVSOnet telescopes and the author’s own equipment. Analysis of these new observations allowed a comparison with other previously published observational data. RS Sge was confirmed to be an RVb Tauri type star, showing the characteristic multiple periodic nature of such stars. Observations indicated a fundamental period of 79 days with a longer amplitude modulation of 1,174 days. While RS Sge was being monitored almost nightly for more than 120 days, no eclipses were observed.