THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 224 1988 Dec 08  19.37UT.
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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Q1988/48
Bob Mizon, UK Nova Patrol, reports a discrepancy on Uranometria
2000 in respect of two stars in Perseus noted during routine nova
patrol sweeps.
He notes that a star he designates 'A' was about one magnitude
fainter than a star assigned 'B' whereas the atlas shows dot sizes
indicating the reverse.
The Editor identifies these objects with the following SAOC data:
A=056142 RA 3h02m13s DEC +39 27'36" (1950) mv=7.5; mpg=9.1; Sp=KO
B=056176 RA 3h04m19s DEC +38 53 44  (1950) mv=7.7; mpg=8.0; Sp=FO
CSI has A=8.0v; B=7.8v
It is known that dot sizes on some atlases are based on the stars
appearance on B plates so this may have caused the discrepancy but
further information and observations would be welcomed.

Q1988/49
Bob Mizon also draws attention to an object plotted on the same
atlas as a magnitude 6 double which is actually the quasar 3C68.1,
clearly a much fainter object.

SAO CATALOGUE
Jost Jahn, Germany,(MAG40869) e-mails that he now has the SAOC on
disk. It consists (ASCII format) of 280,000 stars. In 360KB IBM
format it takes 33 disks or 17, in 720KB Atari ST format. He
mentions that anyone interested in obtaining copies can contact
him. Please e-mail him on MAG40869.

URANOMETRIA 2000
Martin Ratcliffe, Armagh Planetarium (83:PTM001) advises that they
stock this atlas at a current cost of #37.50 plus #2.25p&p. They
are also selling small meteorites and can accept orders by e-mail
from members of our group quoting card number, expiry date, full
name and address.

LA PALMA PROJECT
Mark Kidger e-mails via STARLINK that according to Tim Naylor
SU UMa, one of the four program stars was in outburst on Nov 26-27.
I cannot trace any visual results to this effect. Did anyone
observe it at that time?

Guy M Hurst