------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2195 2006 Jan 25 17.25UT 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ASAS 023322-1047: POSSIBLE NOVA OR DWARF NOVA IN CETUS Bogumil Pilecki, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland reports: ASAS3V instrument of The All Sky Automated Survey (telephoto lens 180/2.8, diameter 65mm + CCD + Johnsons V filter, 3 minute exposures, pixel size 14.8 arcsec, rms astrometric accuracy - 4 arcsec) has detected an outburst of a previously unobserved object (nova, dwarf nova?) at: RA 02h 33m 22s DEC -10 47.0' (2000) One USNO_B1 star of magnitude B=18.18, is located close to this position. A faint object is visible nearby on DSS images. Observations: DATE UT HJD V 18/01/2006 01:47:40 (Jan 18.075) 2453753.5758 invisible ( V > 14 ) 20/01/2006 02:53:18 (Jan 20.121) 2453755.6212 12.08 21/01/2006 00:50:53 (Jan 21.036) 2453756.5361 12.30 A light curve and images can be found on http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/cgi-asas/asas_disc/023322-1047.0,3754 David Boyd, West Challow Observatory, England, has confirmed the presence of the new object: 2006 Jan 21.779 UT V=12.58 +/- 0.02 Comparison TYC 5288 121 V=10.54 He adds a position measured with Astrometrica/UCAC2: RA 02 33 21.398 +/- 0.07 Dec -10 47 04.55 +/- 0.07 AAVSO charts for this object can be found at: http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/searchcharts3.pl?name=ASAS023322 Guy M Hurst