ET Dra activity according to observations in 2018–2023

The results of new photometric observations of the chromospherically active star ET Dra, performed using telescopes of the Zvenigorod INASAN Observatory, the Russian-Cuban Observatory in the territory of the Republic of Cuba (Havana) and the Terskol INASAN Observatory (a total of 8 sets of observations), as well as the addition of archival observations of the Kamogata Wide-field Survey. According to the data received during 2018–2023 changes in the shape of the light curve caused by the rotational modulation of a star with spots on the surface, as well as studies of the long-term variability of the star’s brightness were investigated. Characteristic changes in the ET Dra light curve are noted including a decrease of the stellar brightness in V filter, its cyclic changes and subsequent brightness increase. The shape of the phase curve and the duration of the extended minimum of brightness vary. During the HJD 245 9670 – 245 9715 interval the amplitude of the star’s brightness variability reached a maximum value of more than 0.4 magnitude, as it was in 1990. For each of the 8 set of observations the surface temperature inhomogeneities map were calculated and estimates of the spotedness parameter S of the object were performed. Maximum value of parameter S was 32.2–33.5%. Based on the constructed power spectra the values of possible cycles of long-term activity of the star are obtained as 570 and 1160 days (1.56 and 3.18 years).