[vsnet-alert 11669] New transient J062657.68+242906.8

Korotkiy Stas planet171 at yandex.ru
Wed Nov 18 23:48:06 JST 2009


Timur Kryachko (Russia) report the new object (mag approximately 16) on the 13 unfiltered images with
exposition 300 sec (lim mag 21) taken Nov. 10, 11 and 12, 2009 with a Takahashi FRC-300 30-cm f/7.8
telescope (+ Apogee Alta U9000 CCD camera) at KSU Astrotel Observatory (Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia).
The object was found by blinking with DSS2 R-photographic plate. All archival DSS and 2MASS photographic plates
shows this object fainter than 19-20 mag, except DSS1 R and B plates.
The new object is located at R.A. = 06h26m57s.68 +/- 0.5, Decl. = +24d29m06s.8 +/- 0.5 (equinox 2000.0).
On the DDS1 consecutive B and R images is clearly visible that object is very blue.
The object shows rather fast variability this days. Discovery image: 
<http://www.makhaon.com/_files/transient.jpg>

Magnitude variability table:

JD mag

2455146.381076 16.24 CR
2455146.384711 16.20 CR
2455146.388657 16.18 CR
2455146.392558 16.18 CR
2455146.396481 16.18 CR

2455147.461146 15.72 CR
2455147.465069 15.77 CR
2455147.468924 15.74 CR
2455147.472836 15.77 CR
2455147.476736 15.78 CR

2455148.455694 15.90 CR
2455148.459491 15.95 CR
2455148.463437 15.92 CR

New magnitude estimation of new transient: 06h26m57s.68, +24d29m06s.8.
The object remains bright 7 days.

JD mag

2455153.415972 16.25 СR
2455153.419769 16.27 CR
2455153.423692 16.28 CR
2455153.427604 16.30 CR
2455153.431505 16.31 CR


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