October 24, 2014: Ms. Deanne Coppejans (PhD candidate, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) and University of Cape Town) and colleagues have requested AAVSO observer assistance in monitoring several dwarf novae in support of their campaign to observe them in outburst with the Very Large Array (VLA) to search for radio jets.
Note: A thread for this campaign has been created in the AAVSO Campaigns and Observation Reports discussion forum: https://www.aavso.org/eps-aur-monitoring
CONTINUED AT LEAST THROUGH 2021 - Elizabeth O. Waagen, 17 April 2020
September 17, 2014: Dr. Robert Stencel (University of Denver Astronomy Program) has requested that AAVSO observers monitor epsilon Aurigae from now through the end of the observing season.
Notes: Please continue to monitor RT Cru as it continues to decline slowly from its outburst that began in 2021 and after it returns to minimum. - Elizabeth O. Waagen, April 4, 2023
This campaign has been extended indefinitely. Dr. Karovska requests monitoring of RT Cru until further notice. - Elizabeth O. Waagen, 17 April 2020
Out-of-eclipse monitoring requested until further notice to study evolution of disk. - June 2017. Also, Special Notice #387 (20140724) updated this campaign.
April 29, 2014: Dr. Peter Garnavich (University of Notre Dame) and Dr. Paula Szkody (University of Washington) have requested the help of AAVSO observers in monitoring the cataclysmic variable SBS 1108+574 (= CSS 120422:111127+571239) in support of upcoming Hubble Space Telescope observations. The HST COS (Cosmic Origins Spectrograph) will be carrying out far-ultraviolet spectroscopy of this target on 2014 May 12-13 UT.
April 2, 2014
1. Nova Scorpii 2014 = TCP J17154683-3128303 [V1534 Sco]
2. Nova Cygni 2014 = PNV J20214234+3103296 [V2659 Cyg]
1. Nova Scorpii 2014 = TCP J17154683-3128303
Event: Nova Scorpii 2014 = TCP J17154683-3128303
Discovered by: Koichi Nishiyama (Kurume, Japan) and Fujio Kabashima (Miyaki, Japan)
March 14, 2014: On 2014 March 20 at approximately 02:06 a.m. EDT (06:06 UT), an occultation of Regulus (alf Leo, magnitude 1.4 V) by the magnitude-12.4 V asteroid (163) Erigone will take place. The occultation track includes Bermuda and northwest along a corridor stretching from the mid-Atlantic USA through Ontario, Canada.
February 11, 2014
1. Event: Nova Sagittarii 2014 = PNV J18250860-2236024 [V5666 Sgr]
Discovered by: Sigeru Furuyama (Tone-machi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan) and reported by S. Nakano (Sumoto, Japan)
Discovery magnitude: unfiltered CCD magnitude 8.7, using a 200-mm f/2.8 camera lens + BJ-42L camera
Discovery date: 2014 Jan. 26.857 UT
Coordinates: R.A. 18 25 08.60 Decl. = -22 36 02.4 (2000.0)
February 7, 2014
Event: Outburst of the recurrent nova V745 Sco
Discovery by: Rod Stubbings (Tetoora Road, VIC, Australia)
Discovery magnitude: 9.0 (visual)
Discovery date: 2014 February 6.694 UT
Coordinates: R.A. 17 55 22.27 Dec. -33 14 58.5 (2000.0)
