[vsnet-alert 13937] Very bright outburst of NN Cam (former NSV 1485) at 12.4m!

[Denis Denisenko]

NN Cam is in outburst on three unfiltered 120-sec images taken last
night from Ka-Dar observatory's TAU station (40-cm Djigit telescope,
remotely by Vladimir Gerke). Using R=12.3 comparison star from the
finder chart at http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/~denis/NSV1485-comps.gif I have
measured the magnitude of the variable to be 12.42! It is the
brightest outburst of this star I have ever seen, beyond the reported
range 12.6-17.8.

Recent observations of NN Cam from Caucasus:

20111117.852  17.19CR  TAU/Ka-Dar
20111120.017  17.29CR  TAU/Ka-Dar
20111125.789  17.09CR  TAU/Ka-Dar
20111205.644  12.42CR  TAU/Ka-Dar

Animation of TAU/Ka-Dar images from Nov. 17 (quiescence) and Dec. 05 (outburst):
http://pics.livejournal.com/bigdenru/pic/000b6z02/

Best regards,

Denis in Moscow