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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1322      1998 Jul 30 21.06UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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UV PERSEI (=Q1998/056)
Patrick Schmeer, Germany reported an outburst of UV Persei, a star
on the Recurrent Objects list of the UK Nova/Supernova Patrol
which he estimated at magnitude 11.6 on 1998 July 12.969UT. A
confirmatory observation was made by Gary Poyner of Birmingham
on 1998 July 13.006 at visual magnitude 12.3. Differences between
the sequences of the AAVSO and BAAVSS appear to explain the
discrepancy in the above reports.

R.Modic, USA has now reported a second outburst after the star
had apparently faded from sight:
1998 July 24.078,  15.1 (Gary Poyner)
          25.324, [16.0 (R.Modic)
          27.431, [15.3 (G.Hanson, USA 0.46-m refl.)
          28.351,  13.4 (R.Modic, 0.50-m refl.)

Further observations are urgently required.

SUPERNOVAE 1998cy, 1998cz, 1998da, 1998db, 1998dc
N. Regnault and O. Perdereau, Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur
Lineaire, Universite de Paris-Sud, on behalf of the EROS
collaboration, report the discovery of five apparent supernovae
discovered in the course of their automated supernova search with
the 1-m Marly telescope (+ two 1-deg^2 CCD cameras) at the European
Southern Observatory:

SN       Date UT      R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      V        Offset
1998cy   May 20    14h02m42.82  - 5 45'05.7   19.5:   near centre
1998cz   May 21    12 03 06.50  -12 37 41.5   18.5:   near centre
1998da   July 1     0 27 13.76  -39 25 25.6   20.5:   2".4 W, 1".2S
1998db   July 1    22 55 54.64  -39 26 29.8   19.4:   near centre
1998dc   July 5    22 20 16.10  -44 33 56.1   19.5:  24".6 W, 3".9N
IAUC 6972 (extract)

SUPERNOVA 1998dd IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
J. Maza, Department of Astronomy, University of Chile, reports
the discovery by R. Antezana, on a T-Max 400 film taken by L. E.
Gonzalez with the Maksutov telescope at Cerro El Roble on July
18.058 UT, of an apparent supernova (B about 17) located at R.A. =
13h47m33s.95, Decl. = -33o02'31".4 (equinox 2000.0), which is 2".8
east and 2".5 north of the nucleus of a ringed spiral galaxy.  SN
1998dd was confirmed on a film taken by Gonzalez using the same
telescope on July 19.133.  No star is visible at this position on a
film obtained on June 18.139 (B > 20).
IAUC 6974

Guy M Hurst