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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 902       1994 Dec 04 15.20UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England. Telephone/FAX(0256)471074 Int:+44256471074
INTERNET: GMH at AST.STAR.RL.AC.UK  or    GMH at GXVG.AST.CAM.AC.UK
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V1413 AQUILAE
Dr.U.Munari, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padnova e-mails that the
brightness drop of the eclipsing symbiotic nova AS 338 reported in
E-Circular 901 was expected.
The star has eclipses every 434.1 days according to the ephemeris:

              T = 2446650(+/-15) + 434.1(+/-0.2) x E

and its visual magnitude at central eclipse drops below V=15. The
1994 eclipse was expected around the dates reported by John Bortle.
The ingress time is usually very short.
For detailed discussion of the object and its lightcurve in
particular see:
Munari U. 1992, Astron.Astrophys. 257, 163

PKS 0422+004
Further to the report on E-Circular 900, Gary Poyner, Birmingham,
UK reports a visual magnitude estimate on 1994 Nov 26.993UT of
14.3 (0.40-m reflector).

LEONID METEORS 1994
Reports of enhanced activity of the Leonid meteors on Nov. 17-18,
both via visual observation (despite the full moon) and radio
monitoring, have been received from P. Jenniskens (Ames Research
Center, NASA; and Dutch Meteor Society), K. Suzuki (Aichi, Japan)
and T. Nakamura (Radio Atmospheric Science Center, Kyoto
University); and P. Brown (University of Western Ontario). Both
the true rates and the peak time are difficult to ascertain,
though it seems possible that the zenithal hourly rate was about
100 around Nov. 18.2 UT +/- 0.4 day (corresponding to solar
longitude about 235o.7 +/- 0o.4, equinox 2000.0).
IAUC 6109

Guy M Hurst