THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 275 1989 Mar 17 13.26UT. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------- RZ LEONIS Stefan Korth and Patrick Schmeer, Federal Republic of Germany, report the outburst of RZ Leonis, a star on the UK Nova/Supernova Patrol's Recurrent Objects list. The star is located at: RA 11h34m39s DEC +02 05.5'(1950). Available visual observations: 1989 Mar 6.993UT, [13.3 (Schmeer) 10.924 13.4 (Korth) 10.965 13.5 (Schmeer) The star was last seen in outburst in 1987 Nov (cf IAUC 4504). ST GEMINORUM Hans Bengtsson, Sweden, e-mails that the recent maximum of ST Gem was unusually bright (cf E269) followed by a rapid fading: 1989 Jan 28.95UT, 9.5 (C.Jansson, 0.25-m refl) Feb 21.78 11.6 (do.) 23.79 11.3 (do.) TX CANES VENATICI Hans Bengtsson also reports that this variable is one degree in error on Uranometria. W LYR Hans Bengtsson also e-mails that the star marked as W Lyr on Uranometria is actually one of the comparison stars. ATLAS OMISSIONS/ERRORS In view of recent reports, subscribers are asked whether they feel it is worth continuing this project which was originally to log stars missing from the SAO Atlas. This yielded a vast number of entries because the atlas was not complete to magnitude 9 as the introduction suggested. The SAO Atlas may not now be extensively used but Uranometria and Borealis/Eclipticalis have become the standards where stars as faint as magnitude 9 are needed. Should we produce a new list based on these atlases? Guy M Hurst