------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2706 2011 Jan 21 17.30UT 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- VARIABLE STAR IN ORION: TCP J06195996+1926590 Seiichi Yoshida, Japan, reports on CBET 2633 that he found a new variable star (mag 14.3-14.4) on CCD images (limiting mag 16.2) taken by Youichirou Nakashima on 2011 Jan. 8.59UT in the course of the MISAO Project with a 0.25-m reflector + CCD. The new object is located at: RA 06h 19m 59.96s DEC +19o 26' 59.0" (2000). Nothing is visible at this position on unfiltered CCD images taken by Nakashima on 2010 Nov. 29.77 (limiting mag 16.3-16.4) or by Nobuo Ohkura on 2000 Feb. 27 (0.16-m reflector + CCD; limiting mag 16.1). Nothing is present on a Digitised Sky Survey (DSS) infrared image from 1994 Nov. 27; however, a faint star is visible at this position on the DSS blue image from 1996 Feb. 14.15 UT, and a hint of this object maybe be present on a DSS red image from 1996 Oct. 9. Nick James, Chelmsford reports the following magnitudes on Jan. 9.800: V = 14.38, R_c = 14.36, I_c = 14.53. Yoshida adds that Kadota found that a star in the USNO-B1.0 catalogue (blue mag 20.4-20.5) has position end figures 59s.9113, 59".210. Brian Skiff (Lowell Observatory) finds the variable to be only 0".1 from the the GSC-2.3-catalogue position for the blue star, which has position end figures 59s.93, 58".8. Dave Balam, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, National Research Council of Canada (NRCC) et. al., report that a spectrogram (range 385-694 nm, resolution 0.3 nm) obtained on Jan. 10.267 UT with the 1.82-m Plaskett Telescope exhibits a strong blue continuum showing very broad (FWHM = 4.2 nm at H-beta) Balmer series absorption lines. The H-alpha line appears to be filled in by emission. Guy M Hurst