Agol, Interesting objects in Perseus. | Thread profile

DisplayAds("Right1"); Great pointers Dave, that will be easy to find. Perseus is not that hard to see. It is one of the circumpolar constellations, so is pretty much always in the sky, northern hemisphere of course. Has anyone observed a blink of Algol? That is one of those things that I have always wanted to see, but have just never planned a time for it. For...

Originally Posted by Integral Has anyone observed a blink of Algol? That is one of those things that I have always wanted to see, but have just never planned a time for it. For those not familiar with it, Algol is an eclipsing binary ...

I should have linked this in my previous post.

Wow. I was wondering how long the transition took. It takes a mere hour to dim and another hour to brighten again. That's within the attention span of a backyard astronomer. Do you know if there is a time chart that tells when to look?

Originally Posted by DaveC426913 Wow. I was wondering how long the transition took. It takes a mere hour to dim and another hour to brighten again. That's within the attention span of a backyard astronomer. Do you know if there is a time...

Here is a caclulator. There is one one on the 22Nov that looks like a good time for me. These Algol post are sort of Off topic. I am going to split them into a new thread.