New Light Curve and Period Study of the Contact System VW Cephei

JOURNAL OF OCCULTATION AND ECLIPSE (JOE); ISSN 2522-7955; No. 3, 2016

F. Bidjarchian¹, P. Mirshafiei¹, A. Poro¹

¹International Occultation Timing Association-Middle East Section (IOTA-ME), Iran; info@iota-me.com

Abstract

The new BV light curves of W UMa type eclipsing binary star VW Cep are presented. The observations were made at the ISA Observatory, Iran. Our new ephemeris is presented as follow: MinI (HJD) = 2256221.3074978(±0.000442481)+0.277892×E

Keywords: Variable star, Binary, Photometry