[vsnet-alert 10824] Re: possible new cataclysmic variable in Aqr

Denis Denisenko denis at hea.iki.rssi.ru
Wed Dec 17 01:50:25 JST 2008


It's amazing that this new variable is located just _under_ the 
beautiful christmas-tree-shaped asterism!  Look at the 500"x500" 
color-combined (BRIR) DSS image:

http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/~denis/J2131-0039-asterism.jpg (33 kB)

The position of variable (at the bottom) is marked with two white dashes.

There are no previous outbursts recorded neither in Palomar/NEAT data 
taken on 25 different nights between Sep. 1997 - July 2006, nor in 16 
DSS plates from 14 different dates between 1952 and 1995.

Denis

Hitoshi YAMAOKA wrote:

> "K. Itagaki, Yamagata, Japan, reports his discovery of a new
> variable star on a wide-field survey CCD image taken with a 0.21-m f/3
> reflector. Confirming CCD images taken on Dec. 16.424 UT with a
> 0.60-m f/5.7 reflector show the variable's magnitude to be about 15.4
> and its position to be R.A. = 21h31m22.41s, Decl. = -0d39'36".8
> (equinox 2000.0).


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