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    Variable Star of the Season: RV Tauri
Our Variable Star of the Season feature begins its second decade with RV Tauri, the class prototype of a fascinating class of variables. Discovered in 1905, RV Tau's unpredictable behavior represents a challenge for theoreticians, and makes it an exciting target for observers, too! Read on for more information on the January 2009 Variable Star of the Season.
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Bulletin 72 for 2009 Predicted Dates of Maxima and Minima of Long Period Variables for 2009 01/20/09
Slight change to data download format Columns 15 and 16 in our data download format were incorrectly described in our documentation. This has now been fixed. 01/16/09
Variable Star of the Season: RV Tauri 01/15/09
MagPlot 3.0 for Windows Windows-based tool for analysing light curves of variable stars or other time series data. 01/13/09
A mysterious optical transient in NGC 300 Discovered by Berto Monard in 2008 01/12/09
JAAVSO Preprint "Period Changes in δ Scuti Stars: ρ Puppis" by T. Moon and C. van Antwerpen 01/12/09
Special Notice #143 Request extended to observe High-Mass X-Ray Binaries (HMXBs) in support of radial velocity observations 01/10/09
AAVSO Newsletter 39 is now available to members who log in to Blue&Gold. Non-members now have access to Newsletter 38. 01/07/09
JAAVSO Preprint "The Changing Nature of the Dwarf Nova BV Centauri" by Alan Plummer and Peter Horn 01/07/09
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