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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 972      1995 July 17 19.15UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England. Telephone/FAX(0256)471074 Int:+44256471074
INTERNET: GUY@TAHQ.DEMON.CO.UK             GMH at AST.STAR.RL.AC.UK
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BC URSAE MAJORIS
Janet Mattei, Director of the AAVSO, informs us that David York
recently observed an outburst of BC UMa, a dwarf nova of the
SU UMa subclass. Confirmation was obtained by G.Dyck:
1995 July  2.965UT, [14.0 (Gary Poyner, Birmingham, UK)
           6.158UT,  14.0 (D.York, Abiquiu, NM, USA)
           6.187UT,  13.8 (D.York)
           6.229UT,  13.0 (D.York)
           7.10 UT,  12.4 (G.Dyck, Assonet, MA, USA)
           7.235UT,  13.0 (T.Burrows, Novato, CA, USA)
T.Burrows adds that the star was not seen to magnitude 13.6 on
July 8.23UT and R.Royer, AAVSO also reports a negative result
to a limit of 15.5 on July 10.253UT indicating the outburst was
of very short duration.
(AAVSO Alert Notice 210 and other sources)

WORLD WIDE WEB
Nick James, Webmaster reports the following number of accesses
were made to the TA WWW pages during the first three weeks of
operation:
Week ending 1995 June 25  639 accesses from 11 sites
                 July  2  868 accesses from 11 sites
                 July 10 1319 accesses from 58 sites

HZ HERCULIS
Further to the note on E968 and the joint project with
professional astronomers, Guy Hurst reports that he observed
the object through cloud during very poor conditions:
1995 July 15.9306UT, 12.9; 15.9507, 13.0 (0.44-m reflector)

Guy M Hurst