------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2178 2005 Dec 10 17.00UT 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 Backup: gmh@wdcc1.bnsc.rl.ac.uk WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.theastronomer.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- HT CAMELOPARDALIS Hiroyuki Maehara, Japan, reports an outburst of HT Camelopardalis: 2005 Dec 09.78396UT. 12.68V; 9.78645 12.54B Eddy Muyllaert, Belgium, has confirmed the outburst visually: 2005 Dec 09.9889UT, 12.5v Z URSAE MINORIS John Toone, Cressage, England reports that Z Ursae Minoris is fading (visual estimates with a C8): 2005 Nov 17 1749GMT A(2)V(1)B 11.3 Nov 22 2214GMT equal B 11.4 Nov 28 2034GMT B(1)V(3)C 11.7 Dec 3 1838GMT B(4)V(1)C 12.3 V701 TAURI Jeremy Shears, Bunbury, England has detected an outburst of the Recurrent Objects Programme star, V701 Tauri on an unfiltered CCD image: 2005 Dec 6 22.11UT 15.1C Takahashi FS102, 0.1 m refractor, Starlight Xpress SXV-M7 Gary Poyner, Birmingham, England has confirmed this visually: 2005 Dec 6 22.50UT 14.9v. Gary adds that the last outburst recorded was December 1995, when observers at Kyoto determined a superhump period of 0.06891 day. A chart can be downloaded from the AAVSO web site. SUPERNOVAE 2005lb-2005lq The above designations relate to sixteen supernovae discovered during the course of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II collaboration. All are fainter than magnitude 20 according to IAUC 8640 apart from: SN Date UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. 2005lb Sept. 10 22 54 50.05 -00 15 09.0 18.0 2005lc Sept. 10 03 02 11.18 -01 09 59.4 18.8 SUPERNOVA 2005lr IN ESO 492-G2 Discovery by LOSS of a possible supernova (IAUC 8641): SN 2005 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2005lr Dec. 4.41 07 11 39.03 -26 42 20.2 18.5 18.8"W, 2.1"S Guy M Hurst