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Circular No. 8441
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VARIABLE STAR IN CEPHEUS
R. Persson, Hindas, Sweden, reports that a USNO-B1.0 star
located at R.A. = 22h53m33s.28, Decl. = +62o32'23".1 (equinox
2000.0; blue mag 20.2, red mag 15.7) was not visible on a red
Palomar Sky Survey plate from 1953 October, but it is present on
digitized Palomar Sky Survey plates taken on 1991 Sept. 2 (red, mag
about 15.7) and 1984 Aug. 28 (Quick-V).
B. Reipurth, University of Hawaii (UH); and C. Aspin, Gemini
Observatory, report that an R-band CCD image obtained at the UH
2.2-m telescope on 2004 Oct. 9 shows that this star (at R about
17.3) is located at the apex of what appears to be an outflow
cavity in a small dark cloud and is apparently identical with the
bright infrared source 2MASS 22533325+6232235 (J = 10.85). A GMOS
spectrum (resolution 6200), obtained on Nov. 6 at the Gemini-N
telescope, shows deep and wide H_alpha and Na absorption lines on a
red continuum. Thus, the variable appears to be a new highly
reddened FU-Ori-type object that has erupted sometime during the
past 50 years.
(C) Copyright 2004 CBAT
2004 November 19 (8441) Daniel W. E. Green
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