Electronic Telegram No. 1217
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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EX LUPI
     A. F. A. L. Jones, Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand, writes that this variable
(cf. IAUC 5791) is in outburst and is brighter than at any known time since
its outburst around 1955, as indicated by his visual magnitude estimates:
2007 July 14.305 UT, [12.6; Aug. 8.446, [12.6; 2008 Jan. 15.638, 10.4; 16.628,
10.1; 18.096, 10.2 (very poor seeing); 19.624, 9.5.  The AAVSO calls EX Lup a
pre-main-sequence eruptive variable.


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2008 January 21                  (CBET 1217)              Daniel W. E. Green