------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1047 1996 Feb 11 11.58UT 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 WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.demon.co.uk/astronomer ------------------------------------------------------------------- AQ CANIS MINOR (=Q1996/009) Jochen Pietz, Germany reports a possible outburst of AQ CMi which he observed on 1996 Feb 10.975UT at magnitude 14.4. This suspected dwarf nova is listed in Downes and Shara as located at: RA 07h14m34.84s DEC +08 48'05.0" (2000) and the GCVS has the range as: 14.5-[16.5p. R.U.Claudi, Osservatorio di Padova, Italy has also reported via VSNET that the star was observed on Feb 9.906UT with the 1.82-m telescope of Padova, Asiago Observatories equipped with the B&C spectrograph at resolution of 2A in the H-alpha region. The star was in outburst at about magnitude 14.5 and showed a featureless spectrum. According to the TA library the star was reported by L.Meinunger in MVS 2,H7,153 [1965] initially as CSV992 CMi. Morgenroth listed it as 14.1934 in AN 251, 326. The object was recorded on three plates JD 2427155-7160 (1933 March) with a maximum magnitude of 14.5 in line with the current outburst. COMET C/1996 B2 (HYAKUTAKE) Continuation of the ephemeris on E1046: Date R.A. (2000) Dec. R r Elong Mag. Motion h m o ' (AU) (AU) o "/hr P.A. 1996 Mar 1.00 14 51.62 -22 43.5 0.819 1.516 113.4 6.9 40 24 2.00 14 52.08 -22 27.8 0.786 1.498 114.4 6.7 44 21 3.00 14 52.52 -22 10.5 0.753 1.479 115.4 6.6 48 18 4.00 14 52.94 -21 51.2 0.719 1.461 116.4 6.4 52 16 5.00 14 53.34 -21 29.7 0.686 1.442 117.4 6.3 58 13 6.00 14 53.71 -21 5.8 0.653 1.424 118.5 6.1 64 11 7.00 14 54.05 -20 38.9 0.619 1.405 119.5 5.9 72 9 8.00 14 54.36 -20 8.7 0.586 1.386 120.6 5.8 80 8 9.00 14 54.65 -19 34.5 0.553 1.367 121.8 5.6 91 6 10.00 14 54.89 -18 55.7 0.520 1.348 122.9 5.4 103 4 11.00 14 55.09 -18 11.2 0.487 1.329 124.1 5.2 118 3 12.00 14 55.25 -17 20.1 0.455 1.310 125.3 5.0 137 2 13.00 14 55.36 -16 20.7 0.422 1.291 126.6 4.7 159 1 14.00 14 55.41 -15 11.0 0.390 1.271 127.9 4.5 187 0 15.00 14 55.38 -13 48.5 0.357 1.252 129.2 4.2 223 359 16.00 14 55.27 -12 9.4 0.326 1.232 130.6 4.0 270 359 17.00 14 55.05 -10 8.7 0.294 1.212 132.1 3.7 331 358 18.00 14 54.70 -7 39.0 0.263 1.192 133.6 3.4 414 358 19.00 14 54.17 -4 29.7 0.233 1.172 135.1 3.0 529 357 20.00 14 53.40 -0 24.5 0.203 1.152 136.4 2.7 692 357 21.00 14 52.27 +5 1.1 0.175 1.131 137.3 2.3 929 357 22.00 14 50.61 +12 23.9 0.150 1.111 137.2 1.8 1275 357 23.00 14 48.03 +22 34.8 0.127 1.090 134.8 1.4 1759 356 24.00 14 43.68 +36 23.1 0.111 1.070 128.5 1.0 2336 356 25.00 14 35.13 +53 37.0 0.102 1.049 117.6 0.8 2751 354 26.00 14 11.56 +71 48.2 0.104 1.028 103.8 0.7 2670 350 27.00 10 41.34 +86 6.8 0.116 1.006 90.9 0.9 2046 308 28.00 4 5.56 +78 49.2 0.135 0.985 80.5 1.1 1619 200 29.00 3 32.51 +70 2.4 0.159 0.963 72.8 1.3 1169 191 30.00 3 21.98 +63 31.9 0.185 0.942 66.9 1.6 859 188 31.00 3 16.76 +58 40.0 0.213 0.920 62.4 1.8 648 187 Guy M Hurst