high-precision photometry

January 8, 2011: Dr. Michael David Hicks (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) contacted the AAVSO requesting precision 
photometry of three solar system objects in support of NASA's DAWN mission to Vesta.  These objects, called 
"Vestoids", are near-Earth objects with similar reflectance spectra to Vesta itself, suggesting they may be fragments 
of that larger body.

New: Preliminary results, 2010 November 4

The 2010 report by E. Pollman and T. Bauer is available from this link.  For the 2009 report, see this link. 

AAVSO Special Notice #131, November 7, 2008

The link below contains the list of current stars in the PEP database.  V band observations of these stars may be reduced via the PEPObs web tool.  This list is also used by the BVI reduction spreadsheet.

Click here to obtain a comma-separated (.csv) list of PEP target, comparison, and check stars.  This file evolves over time.  The current version is as of October 3, 2020. A "Change Log" can be found here.

The format of the lines is as follows: