[vsnet-alert 12331] Re: [vsnet-outburst 11731] Re: SW Vul: request for confirmation

Mike Simonsen mikesimonsen at mindspring.com
Sat Oct 30 21:04:48 JST 2010


I contacted the observer when this report came in suggesting he had
made an identification error, and he has agreed he measured the wrong
star. This is a false alarm.

-- 
Mike Simonsen
Membership Director
American Association of Variable Star Observers
http://www.aavso.org/



On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Taichi Kato
<tkato at kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>> Two 30-second V filtered images from Astrokolkhoz (Celestron 14) shows a
>> mag 13 object at J2000  20 00 04.62  +22 56 12.99
>>
>> SIMBAD shows SW Vul to be at:  20 00 05.29 +22 56 06.4
>
>   It is likely that the observer reported this 13-mag nearby star.
> SW Vul is not apparently in bright outburst.
>


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