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Alert Notice 672: Monitoring needed of KIC 8462852 (Tabby's Star)

Notes: Dr. Boyajian requests continued coverage of this very interesting target.  -  Elizabeth O. Waagen, April 4, 2023

Ongoing observations are requested for this target until further notice.

July 19, 2019

AAVSO Forum threads (scroll to the bottom of a thread for latest posts):
- Campaigns and Observation Reports: https://www.aavso.org/campaign-kic-8462852

Alert Notice 670: KIC 2856960 time series coverage needed now

July 9, 2019

AAVSO Forums: This campaign is the topic of the AAVSO Campaigns and Observation Reports forum thread https://www.aavso.org/kic-2856960-campaign-2019

Dr. Thomas Marsh (University of Warwick) is requesting times series observations of KIC 2856960 beginning immediately.

Alert Notice 668: V1047 Cen (Nova Cen 2005) rebrightening

Note: Please continue coverage of this nova until further notice.  -  Elizabeth O. Waagen, 13 April 2020

Note: In the original version of this Alert Notice, it was omitted that the rebrightening of V1047 Cen (Nova Cen 2005) was discovered and reported by the Gaia team as Gaia19cfn on June 10, 2019. The target was subsequently observed by OGLE. We apologize sincerely for the omission of this discovery information.  -  Elizabeth O. Waagen

Charts and Sequences Update - June 2019

As usual, the AAVSO Sequence Team has been working hard updating and improving charts and comparison star sequences. The following is a list of updates made during the first six months of 2019. If you observe any of these objects please update your charts and photometry tables with the most recent version as soon as possible. This list is also available for download in XLSX and PDF format (see the links at the bottom of this page.)