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