Circular No. 4033 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 617-495-7244/7440/7444 LILLER'S VARIABLE IN NORMA (NOVA NORMAE 1985) R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory, reports the following magnitude estimates (B and V with respect to a nearby photoelectric sequence) from his examination of old charts: 1916 July 5, B [ 15.5 (Union Observatory); 1960 Aug. 26, mag 16 (at limit of Southern Milky Way chart, 103a-D emulsion); 1966 Apr. 21, B = 15.4 (Canterbury); 1970 Apr. 11, B [ 16.5 (Atlas Stellarum); 1973 July 1, V [ 12.6 (Papadopoulos); 1975 July 12, B = 16.9 (ESO B); 1976 May 5, J = 14.8 (UKSTU J); 1982 Apr. 19, bright (UKSTU I). He also provides recent visual magnitudes: 1985 Jan. 31.75 UT, 12.7; Feb. 1.76, 12.7; 2.75, 12.7; 3.77, 12.7; 5.78, 13.3:. It appears that the object is a red long-period variable. NOVA VULPECULAE 1984 No. 2 Yu. K. Bergner, S. L. Bondarenko, A. S. Miroshnichenko, R. V. Yudin and N. Yu. Yutanov, Main Astronomical Observatory of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences; and K. S. Kuratov and D. B. Mukanov, Astrophysical Institute of the Kazakh S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, report the following photoelectric observations, obtained with the 1.0-m Kazakh telescope. Standard deviations are + 0.02 mag in U, B, V and R, + 0.05 mag in I, J and H, and + 0.09 mag in K. 1985 UT U B V R I J H K Jan. 8.82 6.61 6.68 6.75 5.04 5.02 4.76 4.6: 9.78 6.57 7.17 6.79 5.84 5.01 4.97 4.69 4.35 10.78 6.65 7.29 6.94 5.98 5.12 5.12 4.92 4.42 11.30 6.75 7.37 6.97 6.10 5.16 Visual magnitude estimates: Jan. 16.83 UT, 7.6 (R. Lukas, West Berlin); 19.04 UT, 7.6 (P. Maley, Houston, TX); 20.04, 7.8 (Maley): 20.85, 7.8 (Lukas); 24.75, 8.5 (C. Franciosi, Varese, Italy). 1E 1402.3+0416 P. Giommi and P. Barr, EXOSAT Observatory, report that EXOSAT observations of the BL-Lac object 1E 1402.3+0416 on Feb. 1 yield a mean 0.3-3.5-keV intensity of 1.4 x 10**-14 J m**-2 s**-1, a factor of ten higher than that previously found by the Einstein Observatory. In addition, variability by a factor of two on a timescale of less than 6 hr was detected. Optical and radio observations are urged. 1985 February 7 (4033) Brian G. Marsden
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