VPhot put to use in student research project

Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Wed, 07/08/2015 - 18:27

"Vina Hing and Linh Thuy Nguyen are two students in year 11 at Prairiewood High School in New South Wales who took on a fantastic research project studying the binary system SZ Scl.  They used T9 on the iTelescope.Net Outreach Grant Program to collect photometric observations in B and V during their spare time, of which there is very little for students in year 11.

They then reduced all of their observations using the Vphot system and uploaded all their data to the AAVSO's database.  Using their data, as well as other recent data from the database, they then used Binary Maker 3 software to analyse the system.  Their mentor and supervisor, Giorgio Di Scala, then created his own analysis and the group compared the work to one another, and they found that the analysis was nearly identical, which is an amazing feat for these busy students!"

You can read the full story at ITelescope.Net

Thanks to Peter Lake for bringing this to my attention.

Cheers,
Mike Simonsen
AAVSO