[Vsnet-alert 8428] Re: rho Cas brighter?

[Taichi Kato]

> ...that is not an unusually bright mag
> for rho Cas. It is interesting if this star
> gets fainter.

   The star somewhat brightened following the 2000 event (I was an independent
chance discoverer of that event) before the fading, coming close to the
current level.  If the present brightness is somehow associated with the
preceding spectroscopic event, it would be interesting to look for the common
physical origin.