120 Years of RZ Dor (Abstract)

Volume 37 number 2 (2009)

James Bedient

Abstract

(Abstract only) Archival data on RZ Dor is examined to update its type and period. Data ranging from pre-1900 Harvard plates through AAVSO visual estimates made during the 1980s and 1990s, to 21st century CCD photometry, is used to confirm its type as Mira and determine an accurate period. The value of multiple independent accessible datasets is confirmed yet again.