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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2754      2011 Aug 03 15.40UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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SV ARIETIS (=N Ari 1905 = N Ari No 2 = 116.1905 ARI)
Rod Stubbings, Tetoora Observatory, Victoria, Australia, reports that 
his observation of SV Ari on 2011 Aug 2.788UT shows the star at mag. 
15.0. He observed the field for an hour before haze covered the sky.

David Boyd, West Challow, England obtained images on 2011 Aug 3 being a 
stack of 5 x 60sec V-band images centred on 2:05 UT. The mean magnitudes 
were V=15.38, B=15.49.

Guy Hurst, Basingstoke, immediately booked the 0.61-m Cassegrain 
telescope of the Sierra Stars network in USA to obtain a 30 second V 
image which was secured on Aug 3.483UT clearly showing a star plotted as 
SV Ari on the AAVSO Chart Ref 5167fvf. Using the photometry table and 
sequence 5167fvx photometry yielded V= 15.44 +/- 0.04 in slightly hazy 
conditions.

The object was discovered by M. and G. Wolf on Heidelberg plates taken 
1905 November 6 (AN 169 [1905] 415). The object was at the limit on the 
Palomar Sky Survey and the range catalogued as 12p-22p in 'A Reference 
catalogue and Atlas of galactic Novae' by Hilmar W Duerbeck.

The discovery position by Wolf and Wolf seems to have been erroneous and 
the latest given by the AAVSO is:
RA 03h 25m 3.34s DEC +19 49' 52.9" (2000)

There have been various claims of brief sightings since 1905 but none 
positively confirmed so this object, on the Recurrent Objects List, 
needs urgent monitoring.

Guy M Hurst