THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 582 1991 Nov 27 20.04UT Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise, Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4PP,England. Telephone/FAX(0256)471074 Int:+44256471074 Telex: 9312111261 Answerback: TA G JANET BOXES: GMH at UK.AC.CAM.ASTRONOMY.STARLINK or GUYH at UK.AC.SUSSEX.CLUSTER TELECOM GOLD: 10074:MIK2885 PRESTEL 256471074 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1991 AGM VIDEO The meeting was a great success and was attended by over 70 observers. We are pleased to announce that a video of this event is now available thanks to the hard work of Martin Mobberley who recorded the talks and who subsequently has edited the tape to a length of approximately three hours. It includes the following: Annual Report The Editor 1991 VG- A returning spacecraft? Guy M Hurst Rebirth of the Planetary Section Mark Kidger Recent Developments in amateur CCD systems Terry Platt The Great Solar Eclipse of 1991 July 11 Eric Strach The Discovery of Nova Herculis 1991 Denis Buczynski Annual Awards Ceremony Star Catalogues and Atlases from 1850 Mike Swan Interview with Terry Platt showing latest CCD equipment. The video can now be ordered from the editor and costs #12.00 per tape for UK post paid. Please add #3.00 for despatch to other European Destinations. Additionally UK based subscribers can hire the video for one week by sending a remittance of #4.00. COMET SHOEMAKER-LEVY (1991d1) Carolyn S. and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David H. Levy report their discovery of another comet on films exposed with the 0.46-m Schmidt telescope at Palomar, as shown below. The comet is diffuse with condensation; the image on Nov. 15 may be involved with a faint star. The comet appears as a very diffuse trail on a 48-min plate taken by C. Brewer with the Oschin Schmidt telescope on Nov 16. 1991 UT R.A. (1950) Decl. m1 Nov. 13.34878 3 28 58.30 +44 07 15.9 16.5 13.37969 3 28 57.61 +44 07 09.9 15.35972 3 28 24.75 +44 00 51.6 IAUC 5389 SUPERNOVA 1991bf IN ESO 471-G30 R. H. McNaught, Anglo-Australian Observatory, reports his discovery of an apparent supernova (mag about 17.5) in ESO 471-G30 (= MCG -05-56-27) on an I plate taken Nov. 13.4 UT by K. S. Russell with the U.K. Schmidt Telescope. The supernova is located at R.A. = 23h49m40s.10, Decl. = -29 43'10".6 (1950.0) or 12".1 west and 23".0 north of the centre of the galaxy. No star appears in this position on the SERC J or the ESO R and B surveys. A nearby star (mag about 18.5) is situated closer to the nucleus (6".7 west and 17".6 north) with end figures 40s.52, 16".0. IAUC 5389 R CRB D.Bohme, Germany reports further photoelectric photometry of this star (cf E578): 1991 Oct 28.74UT, V=6.14, B-V=+0.66; 30.73, 6.22, +0.67; Nov 3.77, 6.18, +0.68; 4.74, 6.24, +0.66; 6.73, 6.30, +0.63; 10.73, 6.29, +0.76:. Melvyn Taylor, Wakefield also reports recent visual estimates ( cf E579):1991 Nov 14.26, 6.7; 19.25, 6.7; 20.28, 6.8; 23.22, 6.8. Guy M Hurst