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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1974      2004 Feb 25 10.52UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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OCCULTATION OF TYC 1338-00883-1 BY 2019 VAN ALBADA, 2004 Feb 25
Further to TA E-Circular 1973 Jan Manek reports an error of one hour in 
his predictions for tonight's occultation (drawn to his attention by 
Raymond Dusser) which should read:

Updated path runs over Turkey around 19:58 UT, Bulgaria ~20:05 UT,
SW Romania ~20:07 UT, N Serbia ~20:09 UT, SW Hungary ~20:11 UT, NE 
Slovenia ~20:12 UT, Austria around 20:13.5 UT, S Germany around
20:17 UT, Luxembourg ~20:19 UT, Belgium ~20:20 UT, very N France ~20:21 
UT, England around 20:23.5 UT and Ireland ~20:27 UT.

BZ UMA
Gary Poyner relays that Mike Simonsen has detected an outburst of BZ UMa 
on Feb 25.294 at 11.6v.  This is the first outburst seen since December 
2002.

Gary adds that the search for a superoutburst & superhumps in BZ UMa 
goes on, despite the current thinking that the star is a dwarf nova 
below the period gap.  Any photometry obtained might prove to be very 
valuable.

The position for BZ UMa is...
RA 08h 53m 44s.18  DEC +57 48 40.8 (2000)

Charts are available from...
http://joevp.20m.com/charts/henden/Her%20to%20Vul/

Guy M Hurst