[vsnet-alert 12086] Re: [AAVSO-DIS] Outbursting object in Centaurus

[Brian Skiff]

On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 20:35 -0300, Sebastián Otero wrote:
> This unknown outburster may be bright in V now or not but it has been detected as a very soft X-ray source by the XMM-Newton satellite.
> See Joe Patterson's alert on the CBA page:
> http://cbastro.org/communications/news/messages/0763.html
> 
> It was detected on July 7 at 11 51 13.06 -62 37 29


     These might be useful as a stop-gap sequence at least to set
zero-points for medium-field CCDs:


source:  1970AJ.....75..324W

Name             RA  (J2000)  Dec        V     B-V    U-B
LF 14   8     11 47 49.49 -62 22 27.2  12.58   1.49   1.07
LF 14  12     11 49 35.00 -62 31 25.9  10.02   1.24   0.87
LF 14  13     11 49 42.34 -62 08 34.2   9.98   0.15   0.04
LF 14  17     11 50 18.42 -62 45 42.1   9.82   0.12   0.00
LF 14  21     11 50 49.10 -62 34 39.7  12.96   0.00  -0.48
LF 14  25     11 51 39.00 -62 57 17.9  10.96   0.52   0.04
LF 14  27     11 51 57.83 -62 32 51.5  10.92   1.06   0.64
LF 14  28     11 52 23.23 -62 23 56.6  12.07   0.97   0.60
LF 14  37     11 54 24.62 -62 35 26.6  10.45   1.07   0.83



It looks as though only the SIMBAD name-server is down, so if you
search on coordinates it works fine from the Harvard VizieR site:

http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/VizieR



\Brian