------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2557 2009 Jun 12 18.42UT 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- V854 CENTAURI Colin Henshaw, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia has sent us a series of mobile telephone text messages suggesting V854 Centauri may be fading though the initial magnitudes below are based on estimates from examination of the camera screen only: 2009 May 20 20.11 UT, mag 7.7 May 27 20.01 UT 7.7 May 29 20.51 UT 7.7 May 30 20.40 UT 7.5 Jun 6 20.07 UT 7.8 Jun 8 19.59 UT 8.4 Jun 9 20.23 UT 8.5 The ASAS (Pojmanski, G. 2002, Acta Astron. 52,397) also detected the fading of V854 Cen according to a report by Hiroyuki Maehara: HJD MAG_4 MAG_0 MAG_1 MAG_2 MAG_3 4973.79231 7.418 7.421 7.443 7.438 7.422 4984.60796 7.512 7.566 7.527 7.521 7.512 4989.60473 7.999 8.706 8.410 8.097 8.024 4991.61748 8.299 8.354 8.359 8.341 8.318 SUPERNOVAE 2009du-2009dy CRTS discoveries of faint supernovae announced on CBET 1791: SN 2009 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2009du Apr. 17.31 13 39 46.36 -21 27 19.1 19.4 -- 2009dv Apr. 18.41 13 24 40.15 +16 34 05.5 19.3 14".4 E,13".1N 2009dw Apr. 21.28 13 36 09.45 +34 03 19.0 19.2 1".5 W, 0".8S 2009dx Apr. 21.41 16 49 25.67 +05 52 48.1 18.8 0".5 W, 3".5S 2009dy Apr. 22.39 15 01 04.03 +43 13 13.9 18.4 0".7 E, 0".3S SUPERNOVAE 2009dz-2009ed Further faint CRT discoveries of supernovae announced on CBET 1792: SN 2009 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2009dz Apr. 3.26 12 35 35.77 +01 52 12.6 18.1 1".5 E, 5".4N 2009ea Apr. 3.36 14 47 02.39 +09 57 37.4 18.1 1".9 E,10".1N 2009eb Apr. 17.21 09 54 40.35 +19 11 12.7 17.7 0".9 E, 2".6N 2009ec Apr. 19.23 11 06 28.89 +24 05 15.4 18.3 2".0 W, 0".5N 2009ed Apr. 24.21 09 23 41.42 +50 24 11.2 17.9 2".8 W,21".9S SUPERNOVA 2009ee IN IC 2738 Discovery by LOSS of a possible supernova (CBET 1795): SN 2009 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2009ee May 9.26 11 21 25.30 +34 20 23.3 17.5 27.7"E,60.7"S Additional KAIT magnitudes for 2009ee in IC 2738: Apr. 20.28 UT, [19.3; May 10.23, 17.3. SUPERNOVAE 2009ef-2009ek Faint discoveries of supernovae reported on CBET 1796 by D. Sand, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network and others: SN 2009 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. g' r' Offset 2009ef Mar. 23 15 19 12.57 +06 21 29.2 21.8 21.1 1.97"E,0.66"N 2009eg Mar. 31 14 54 15.47 +18 57 52.8 17.6 17.7 6.53"W,1.17"N 2009eh Apr. 3 15 20 38.08 +07 39 32.5 21.2 21.0 0.62"E,2.39"S 2009ei Apr. 22 14 32 17.26 +25 36 15.8 20.9 20.8 -- 2009ej Apr. 22 15 10 59.53 +06 33 10.0 19.0 18.8 1.17"E,2.67"S 2009ek Apr. 23 15 19 46.76 +48 31 50.6 20.7 20.7 1.18"E,0.36"S Guy M Hurst