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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1442      1999 Sep 21 16.36UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
INTERNET: GUY@TAHQ.DEMON.CO.UK             GMH at AST.STAR.RL.AC.UK
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DO DRACONIS (=Q1999/276)
Eddy Muyllaert, Belgium, reports an outburst of this UG star which
is on the recurrent objects programme of the BAAVSS. On 1999
Sept 20.830UT he estimated it at magnitude 11.2 visual using the
AAVSO sequence. Patrick Schmeer, Germany confirmed the brightening
on Sept 21.142UT at 10.7 using the Henden/Honeycutt sequence.
Patrick addes that the previous recorded outburst was detected
by Gary Poyner on 1996 Oct 16.

COMET C/1999 R1 (SOHO)
D. A. Biesecker, SM&A Corporation and Goddard Space Flight Center,
reports observations of what is presumably a comet, not a Kreutz
sungrazer, discovered by T. Lovejoy in SOHO/LASCO C3 data and later
also recognized in earlier C2 data.  Astrometry and orbital
computations are given on MPEC 1999-R19.  Biesecker also provides
the following LASCO magnitudes, reduced using the Hipparcos Input
Catalogue:
Sept. 5.47 UT, 6.6; 5.53, 6.5; 5.57, 6.4; 5.61, 6.3; 5.65, 6.2;
5.70, 6.2; 5.78, 6.4; 5.82, 6.4; 5.86, 6.7; 5.90, 6.9; 5.99, 6.9;
6.07, 7.4; 6.15, 7.4.  No tail was detected.

     1999 UT           R.A. (2000) Decl.
     Sept. 4.896      10 48.8      + 7 17
IAUC 7251

GM SAGITTARII AND SAX J1819.3-2525 = XTE J1819-254
R. Stubbings, Drouin, Vic., Australia, reports that GM Sgr is
undergoing a very bright outburst after showing recent rapid
variations, his visual magnitude estimates being:  Aug. 11.488 UT,
12.3; 14.436, 12.5; 29.424, 12.7; 31.496, 13.0; Sept. 9.462, 11.2;
11.599, 11.9; 12.409, 11.1; 13.397, 11.9; 14.491, 11.4; 15.395,
8.8; 15.408, 8.8.  Additional m_v estimates by A. Pearce, Nedlands,
W. Australia: Sept. 15.550, 9.5; 15.571, 9.6.
IAUC 7253

The star attributed by Goranskij (1990, IBVS 3464) to GM Sgr
has been measured on the Digital Sky Survey by G. V. Williams,
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, to be at R.A. =
18h19m21s.61, Decl. = -25o24'26".3 (equinox 2000.0; uncertainty +/-
1".0 in both coordinates); this is 1' north of the GCVS position
from Luyten (1927, HCO Bull. No. 852).
IAUC 7253

Guy M Hurst