Welcome to the Eta Car Wiki
This site is meant to help foster communication between the people and groups interested in the X-ray Minimum of Eta Car which took place on 2450799.792+2\times2024=2454847.792= January 16, 2009. The X-ray minimum should have lasted about 3 months - But didn't!
There's also a site dedicated to the June 2003 Event.
Members:
| M. Rubio | H. Levato | P. Williams |
| Z. Abraham | J. Pittard | A. Pollock |
| A. Damineli | N. Smith | A. Moffat |
| O. Stahl | S. Owocki | E. Lajus |
| N. Morrell | K. Hamaguchi | T. Gull |
| K. Nielsen | J. Hillier | S. White |
| M. Corcoran | G. Weigelt | B. Gehrz |
| K. Weis | D. Bomans | K. Davidson |
| H. Hartman | S. Johansson | F. Kerber |
| R. Iping |
Nothing new above the Sun Dept:
Hence there is a fair a priori probability that the companion is in orbital movement, with a suggestion that the outbursts of light which have occurred in the past have been caused by periastral grazings.
R. T. A. Innes, 1914, The Magnitude of Eta Argus, 1914, and the discovery of a close companion to it (MNRAS 74, 697)