Electronic Telegram No. 101
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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TRANSIENT IN LYNX
     E. J. Christensen, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, reports the
discovery of a transient starlike object located at R.A. = 8h03m24s.60
+/- 0s.07, Decl. = +38o18'35".9 +/- 0".5 (equinox 2000.0).  Nothing
is visible within 0'.5 at this location on the Palomar Sky Survey or
in the USNO-A2.0 catalogue.  Following are red magnitudes derived from the
CCD images, taken in the course of the Catalina Sky Survey with the
Catalina 0.68-m Schmidt telescope:  Dec. 11.4436 UT, 15.9; 11.4549, 17.5;
11.4656, 18.2; 11.5073, 19.6; 11.5081, 18.9; 11.5090, 19.1; 11.5099, 19.7.


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2004 December 11                 (CBET 101)               Daniel W. E. Green