EE Cep eclipse

hi,

EE Cep is an eclipsing binary. There are many of them, but this one has a long period of 5.5 years!
It is time again he will become fainter, with an estimated minimum on January 12th 2009. The eclipse can take more than a month.
It normally shines at magnitude 10.7. It will be eclipsed until a magnitude of 12.2 is reached.

(Also OW GEM is a well known long period eclipsing variable. Every 3.5 year, but a short eclipse time around 10 days. A month ago it was his turn, but the bad weather made it difficult to follow.)

Yesterday I did my first attempt on this EE Cep star, and my estimate was 11.3. So it seems it has just started.

Maybe we can follow EE Cep from now on, put your estimated magnitudes here! Cepheus stands comfortable high in the sky.

I used the following easy finder chart for him:
www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/vsp.pl?chartid=1064qb

david.

Hi David, I saw an astroalert on this from sky & telescope via e-mail last night, hopefully the weather will be ok....

Keith..