Interesting, Patrick. You seem to be the only one who was making measurements at the height of the flare, if I read the charts right. The guy Gary from Arizona simply extrapolated a big flare from only a couple of points that were before and after the big brightness, it seems. Or am I reading them wrong? Congratulations! -- Joe ________________________________ From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:47 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Flare In my continuing albeit apparently fruitless effort to interest folks here in "taking data" I'll share a fun light curve I got a couple of nights ago of a red dwarf star called NSV 19335 that (quite by accident) caught a pretty impressive flare: http://brucegary.net/pawm2/NSV19335/nsv19335.htm#Present_Light_Curve_Observa... That should take you right to the graph but if not the plot in question is 8 images down from the top of the page. Gee, just think what it would be like if the Sun ever did that... Note that even at its faintest it never got below mag 12 so it could easily be worked by most anyone with a medium sized scope and a decent imager. BTW, this reminds me of something said in one of my NASA training seminars where the speaker (who is also a data-taker) noted that "Some people get excited by pretty pictures. I get excited over squiggly lines." Ok, have I got any converts yet? Clear skies (which we have in abundance tonight)! patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".