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Alert Notice 647: Nova in Ophiuchus - N Oph 2018 No. 3 = PNV J17422408-2053088

August 13, 2018

Event: Nova in Ophiuchus - N Oph 2018 No. 3 = PNV J17422408-2053088

Discovered by: C. Jacques, J. Barros, E. Pimentel, and P. Holvorcem, on behalf of the Brazilian Transient Search - BraTS (at SONEAR Observatory, Oliveira, Brazil); via TOCP

Discovery magnitude: unfiltered CCD magnitude 11.1 (on three frames, 10-sec exposure, using an astrograph 11" f/2.2 + CCD camera)

Discovery date: 2018 August 08.9596 UT

LPV of the Month August, 2018

R Leo Minoris

R LMi is an interesting Mira star that has been observed by AAVSO observers and members since 1865.  Over 21,000 observations are in the AID from over 900 different observers as can be seen in the light curve shown below which displays all observations in the AID.  It is one of the Legacy LPV Program stars.  It was observed initially in the 1860’s-1870’s before a cessation in observations occurred.  Reasonable coverage did not commence again until the establishment of the AAVSO in 1911.

Alert Notice 645: Monitoring of LPVs for Maser Study

Note: This campaign has been extended to October 2020 and the list of targets has been revised. Please see AAVSO Alert Notice 687 for details. - Elizabeth O. Waagen, December 4, 2019

July 31, 2018: Michael Stroh (Ph.D. candidate, University of New Mexico) requests AAVSO assistance in monitoring 19 LPVs in support of a VLA campaign studying SiO masers. AAVSO monitoring begins now and goes through October 2019.

Alert Notice 644: FO Aqr monitoring requested in faint-state study

Nightly monitoring of FO Aqr is requested throughout the month of October 2022. Many thanks.  -  Elizabeth O. Waagen, 3 October 2022

Please continue observing FO Aqr according to the revised observing cadence given in the next paragraph.  -  Elizabeth O. Waagen, 1 February 2021

Alert Notice 643: Monitoring for Red Dots #2 campaign

July 25, 2018: John Strachan (Ph.D. candidate, Queen Mary University of London) and Dr. Guillem Anglada-Escude (Queen Mary University of London) have requested AAVSO assistance in the monitoring of three M dwarf stars as part of the Red Dots #2 campaign.

Alert Notice 642: ASASSN-18pe observing campaign

July 24, 2018: Dr. Matt Darnley (Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University) and the AAVSO are requesting monitoring of ASASSN-18pe, the cataclysmic variable (possible long period dwarf nova) discovered 2018 July 10 by the ASAS-SN program (J. Strader et al. ATel #11867) at magnitude V = 15.8.

Alert Notice 641: V1490 Cyg multiwavelength campaign

July 24, 2018: Dr. Dirk Froebrich (University of Kent) has requested AAVSO observations to support their upcoming observations of V1490 Cyg. He writes:

"Background: We have recently discovered that the young star V1490 Cyg (situated in the Pelican Nebula IC 5070) is periodically occulted by material in its circumstellar disk(*). Our light-curves indicate a period of about 32 days, and the obscurations are comparable to UX-Ori type eclipses.

Alert Notice 640: Immediate Monitoring of VW Hyi Requested

July 5, 2018 : Dr. Christian Knigge has requested immediate monitoring of the  SU UMa-type dwarf Novae VW Hyi in order to promptly identify the next outburst. This outburst will trigger radio wavelength observations. As this object has never been detected in the radio, it is imperative that the radio observations be started as soon after outburst as possible to have the best chance of detection.