THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 736       1993 May  1 08.10UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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VY AQUARII
W.Albrecht, Pahala, USA reports his detection of an outburst of the
UG star VY Aquarii. Available visual estimates:
Apr. 24.59 UT, [13.5 (Albrecht); 24.70, [13.0 (A. F. Jones, Nelson,
New Zealand); 25.57, 10.0 (Albrecht); 28.73, 10.3 (Jones);
29.68, 10.3 (Jones).
The star was seen at a supermaximum 1990 July 1-4 near magnitude
10.6 (The Astronomer, Vol 27 No 316 p86 [1990].

BZ UMA
Tony Vanmunster (Belgium) has reported an outburst of this star via
Gary Poyner (UK) who himself confirmed it. An independent report
was later received from Patrick Schmeer (Germany).
1993 Apr 23.972UT, 15.8 (Poyner); 28.895, [13.7 (Poyner); 29.890,
11.4 (Schmeer); 29.914, 11.4 (Schmeer); 29.92, 10.9 (H.Dahle,
Norway); 29.972, 10.6 (Vanmunster); 29.993, 10.6 (Poyner); 30.033,
11.2 (Schmeer); 30.478, 11.5 (M.Yamada, via T.Kato);
30.502, 11.7 (S.Takahashi, via T.Kato).