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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1309      1998 Jun 01 20.34UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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V725 AQUILAE (=Q1998/040)
Gary Poyner, Birmingham, England reports his detection of an
outburst of V725 Aquilae which was last recorded bright on
1996 August 12 at magnitude 13.5.
The current outburst was detected by Gary on 1998 May 29.990UT
at visual magnitude 13.9. Gene Hanson, USA subsequently detected
the brightening independently on May 30.436UT at magnitude 13.3v.

SUPERNOVAE 1998ci, 1998cj
N. Regnault and O. Perdereau, Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur
Lineaire, Universite de Paris-Sud, on behalf of the EROS
collaboration, report the discovery of two apparent supernovae in
the course of the automated supernova search with the 1-m Marly
telescope (+ CCD) at La Silla.  SN 1998ci, discovered at V about 18
on images taken on May 19, is located at R.A. = 12h41m01s.12,
Decl. = -6o39'48".2 (2000.0), which is very close to the centre of
the anonymous host galaxy.  SN 1998ci was not present on a frame
taken on 1997 Apr. 4, but it was confirmed on frames taken on
1998 May 20.

SN 1998cj, discovered on images taken on May 21 at V about 17.2, is
located at R.A. = 12h19m43s.30, Decl. = -12o13'41".8 (2000.0),
which is 9".4 east and 10".8 south of the centre of NGC 4263. This
star was not present on a CCD frame taken on 1997 Feb. 7. SN 1998cj
was confirmed on CCD frames taken on 1998 May 26.
IAUC 6921 (extract)

Guy M Hurst