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IAUC 3411: (612); Prob. N IN Sgr; NEW GALAXY OF THE LOCAL GROUP
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Circular No. 3411
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
Postal Address: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
TWX 710-320-6842 ASTROGRAM CAM Telephone 617-864-5758
(612) VERONIKA
This minor planet, lost since its discovery in 1906, has been
identified by the undersigned with 1974 XS, an object recently
reported by the Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (cf. MPC 4916,
4926); as a result, five other single observations were also identified:
1950 LN, 1962 VB, 1973 RE, 1973 TQ and 1973 UH3. The following
current (astrometric) ephemeris is provided:
1979/80 ET R. A. (1950) Decl. Delta r B
Sept.24 4 11.15 +11 13.5 2.213 2.809 16.8
Oct. 4 4 11.51 + 9 47.7
14 4 09.34 + 8 13.9 2.060 2.864 16.6
24 4 04.80 + 6 36.0
Nov. 3 3 58.32 + 4 59.2 1.986 2.920 16.4
13 3 50.58 + 3 29.8
23 3 42.41 + 2 13.6 2.020 2.975 16.4
Dec. 3 3 34.72 + 1 15.6
13 3 28.28 + 0 37.7 2.167 3.030 16.7
23 3 23.62 + 0 20.2
Jan. 2 3 21.07 + 0 20.9 2.407 3.084 17.1
12 3 20.68 + 0 37.0
22 3 22.39 + 1 05.2 2.706 3.138 17.4
Feb. 1 3 26.03 + 1 42.1
11 3 31.37 + 2 24.9 3.033 3.191 17.7
PROBABLE NOVA IN SAGITTARIUS
B. Stenholm and I. Lundstrom, Lund Observatory, write: "On a
red objective-prism plate taken on 1978 Mar. 8 we have found a
spectrum that probably comes from a declining nova. In addition to
the very bright H-alpha emission there is also a He emission line at
587.5 nm; a continuum is also present. A direct plate the next
night shows the star, of mpv ~ 12, at the position R.A. = 18h17m29s.6,
Decl. = -27o57'48" (equinox 1950.0). There is no obvious trace of an
object at this position on the Palomar Sky Survey prints."
NEW GALAXY OF THE LOCAL GROUP
It has been pointed out that the dwarf galaxy described on
IAUC 3385 has previously been discussed by Cesarsky et al. (1977,
A. & Ap. 61, L31; 1978, ibid. 65, 153) and by Longmore et al. (1978,
M.N. 183, 97P).
1979 October 1 (3411) Brian G. Marsden
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