------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 3118 2015 Oct 25 17.10UT 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 CASSIOPEIAE Kris Stanek reports an outburst of HT Cassiopeiae a dwarf nova (UGSU): 2015-10-21.27 <17.03; 2015-10-24.32 13.43 Laszlo Kocsmaros reports confirmation: 20151024.8868  13.2  KLO Gary Poyner also relays: Oct 24.799, 13.3; 24.885, 13.1 GRB 151021A: OPTICAL COUNTERPART Further to the announcement on TA E-Circular 3117. Dr. Vladimir Lipunov, Sternberg Institute has sent us a personal message with further details of the MASTER-SAAO auto-detection system’s discovery of the OT source at: RA 22h 30m 34.43 DEC -33d 11m 50.2s on 2015-10-21.06257 UT at magnitude 14.9. By Oct 21.06404 it had faded to magnitude 15.9. The OT was recorded on 20 images. There is no minor planet at this place. A reference image is held without the OT of 2015-08-28.16118 UT with unfiltered magnitude limit 19.6m. The discovery and reference images are available at: http://master.sai.msu.ru/static/OT/223034.43-331150.2.png Guy M Hurst