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IAUC 3279: 1978 SB; H 2155-304; NGC 4945

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                                                  Circular No. 3279
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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1978 SB
     G. R. Kastel', Institute for Theoretical Astronomy, Leningrad,
and Yu. P. Pskovskij, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow,
cable that Lyudmila I. Chernykh has discovered a fast-moving object
at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory as follows:

     1978 UT          R. A. (1950) Decl.       mpg
     Sept.27.89242    0 40.3     -17 44       12.5
     Oct.  1.83787    0 20.4     -16 04       13.5


H 2155-304
     R. E. Griffiths, U. Briel and the HEAO-A3 Group report that
they have obtained a small multiplicity of possible positions for a
new x-ray source H 2155-304 and that a fourteenth-magnitude object
is located near the center of one of these positions, viz. the
error box centered at R.A. = 21h55m58s.7, Decl. = -30o27'57" (equinox
1950.0).  The error box is ~ 2' long and ~ 30" wide, with the major
axis at a position angle of 150o.

     R. A. Wade, P. Szkody and F. Cordova, California Institute of
Technology, report that they have obtained two spectrograms of the
above-mentioned object, which is located at R.A. = 21h55m57s.9, Decl. =
-30o27'54".0 (equinox 1950.0).  The observations were made using the
SIT digital spectrograph with 10-A resolution on the 150-cm telescope
at Palomar on Aug. 5 and Sept. 23 UT.  The spectrum from
3600 to 6800 A appears blue (B-V < 0.1) and featureless (to within
10 percent of the continuum) and cannot be recognized as that of a
galaxy or a normal single star.  Further optical observations of
this peculiar object (i.e., time-resolved photometry and a
historical search through old photographic plates) are encouraged.


NGC 4945
     P. Marques dos Santos and J. R. D. Lepine, Observatono Nacional,
Rio de Janeiro, and Universidade Mackenzie, Sao Paulo, report
that strong water-vapor emission at 22 GHz was detected from the
galaxy NGC 4945 with the 13.5-m Itapetinga radio telescope on Sept.
22 and 23.  Three emission features appeared in the spectrum at 675,
698 and 714 km/s (with respect to the local standard of rest), the
strongest peak at 675 km/s reaching a flux of 12 Jy.


1978 October 4                 (3279)              Brian G. Marsden

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