Variable Star East of M80

[avandonk]

Below are two images of M80 in Scorpius from a HDR done in March and a HDR from data collected last night. There is a variable? star in the center of the image. The stars brightening is in all the raw images. Anyone know anything about it. North is to the left and East down.

Bert

[JD2439975]

From the GCVS catalog I'd say it's R Sco, Mira, 9.8 - 15.5 mag, 224 day period.
Might need to confirm that though. :D

AAVSO light curve shows it's almost peaking, and brightening.

Would love to do animations of variables some day, very cool.

JD

[avandonk]

Thanks Justin R Sco coords do match quite well. It also starte off red which is consistent with a Mira type variable. Now I see a star brightening at the top of M 80.

Bert

[kinetic]

Two Mira class variables in the first Aladin Sky server field that came up
for M80 vicinity Bert.

Steve