THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 177 1988 July 7  19.35UT.
Telecom Gold 72:MAG60138
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16, Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise, Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP, England. Telephone:(0256)471074.Int:+44256471074
Telex:265871(MONREF G) Quote"72:MAG60138 ATT G.HURST"in FIRST line.
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AS 296
U.Munari, Asiago Astrophysical Observatory, telexes that this
symbiotic variable is in outburst. On July 4, B was approximately
mag 10.0.                                        IAUC 4622

Rob McNaught e-mails the following position:
RA 18h12m33.0s DEC -00 19'53"(1950).
Could patrollers please check recent films for this area and report
by e-mail. Further visual and photographic monitoring is urgently
needed.

NOVA OPH 1988
J.Isles, Cyprus, e-mails that this object is brightening again:
June 30.79UT, 11.8: July 1.78, 11.5; 3.81, 11.3; 4.79, 11.0.

Guy M Hurst