News and Announcements
| 17 April | Solar Bulletin - Volume 70, Number 03 |
The March 2014 Solar Bulletin is now available. Please visit the Solar Bulletin web page to download your copy: http://www.aavso.org/solar-bulletin |
| 03 April | AAVSO Newsletter 60 is now published |
AAVSO Newsletter 60 (April 2014) is now available: http://www.aavso.org/aavso-newsletter The AAVSO Newsletter is a periodic, general forum that supports our various observing programs with lists of new targets, observing programming ideas, and general information that spans a wide area of interest. Guest writers contribute pieces that can range from current events to book reviews. |
| 02 April | Alert Notice 500: Novae in Scorpius and Cygnus |
April 2, 2014 |
| 27 March | Special Notice #383: Transient in Scorpius = TCP J17154683-3128303 |
March 27, 2014: Koichi Nishiyama (Kurume, Japan) and Fujio Kabashima (Miyaki, Japan) report (via the IAU CBAT TOCP page, http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/tocp.html) their discovery of a transient in Scorpius: |
| 24 March | The AAVSO International Database Breaks Twenty-Five Million Observations! |
Over the weekend the AAVSO International Database (AID) hit an important milestone. We broke the twenty-five million mark! We would like to express our appreciation to each and every observer who has contributed even a single observation to that total. |
| 17 March | Special Notice #382: SDSS J100658.40+233724.4 observations crucial now |
March 17, 2014: HST/COS is scheduled to observe the the U Gem-type dwarf nova |
| 14 March | Alert Notice 499: Predicted occultation of Regulus |
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. |
| 14 March | Solar Bulletin - Volume 70, Number 02 |
The February 2014 Solar Bulletin is now available. Please visit the Solar Bulletin web page to download your copy: http://www.aavso.org/solar-bulletin |
| 10 March | Alert Notice 498: Nova Cephei 2014 = TCP J20542386+6017077 |
March 10, 2014: |
| 06 March | Annual Report for 2012-2013 is now online |
Annual Report of the AAVSO for 2012-2013 |
| 05 March | Special Notice #381: HST/COS observations of SDSS J100658.40+233724.4 |
March 5, 2014: HST/COS are being scheduled for the U Gem-type dwarf nova SDSS J100658.40+233724.4, the 40th and final target of the major CV observing campaign organized in 2012 by Drs. Boris Gaensicke, Joseph Patterson, Arne Henden, and 13 other astronomers (see AAVSO Alert Notice 471 and note below). A precise time will be announced later, but the scheduled HST observing window is: |
| 27 February | AAVSO Bulletin 77 for 2014 |
Predicted Dates of Maxima and Minima of 381 Long Period Variables for 2014 |
| 21 February | Asteroids Mikesimonsen and Mariomotta |
Congratulations to AAVSO staff member Mike Simonsen, and to AAVSO Past President Mario Motta who each have had an asteroid named in their honor by the IAU Minor Planet Center. |
| 18 February | New CHOICE courses offered for spring |
Registration is now open for three CHOICE courses being offered this spring. CHOICE: How To Use VPHOT (March 17 - April 11) CHOICE: Variable Star Classification and Light Curves (April 14 - May 9) CHOICE: How To Use VStar (May 12 - June 6)
Courses are $30 for members and $50 for non-members. |
| 11 February | Alert Notice 497: Nova Sagittarii 2014 = PNV J18250860-2236024 AND Erratum |
February 11, 2014 |
| 07 February | Alert Notice 496: Outburst of the recurrent nova V745 Sco |
February 7, 2014 |
| 06 February | Aviso Especial #380: Erupción reportada de la nova recurrente V0745 Sco | |
| 06 February | Special Notice #380: Reported outburst of the recurrent nova V0745 Sco |
February 6, 2014: Rod Stubbings (observer code SRX; Tetoora Road, Victoria, Australia) reports an outburst of the recurrent nova V0745 Sco (aka Nova Sco 1937). Stubbings reports the nova at a visual magnitude of 9.0 on 2014 February 6.694 UT (JD 2456695.194). He previously observed the field on 2014 February 5.696 and found the star fainter than 13.0, indicating that this outburst began within the past 24 hours. |
| 03 February | La IAU le asigna a asteroides el nombre de importantes observadores de AAVSO |
El Minor Planet Center del Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory en Cambridge, Massachusetts, homenajeó recientemente a los observadores de AAVSO Edward A. Halbach y William B. Albrecht nombrando dos planetas menores en su honor en la Circular de Planetas Menores de enero. |
| 31 January | IAU Names Asteroids for Prominent AAVSO Observers |
The Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently honored AAVSO observers, Edward A. Halbach and William B. Albrecht, by naming two minor planets in their honor in January's Minor Planet Circular.
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| 22 January | Alerta de AAVSO 495: Brillante supernova de tipo Ia PSN J09554214+6940260 y campaña de observación |
22 de enero de 2014 |
| 22 January | Alert Notice 495: Bright Type-Ia Supernova PSN J09554214+6940260 and Observing Campaign |
January 22, 2014 |
| 14 January | Solar Bulletin - Volume 69, Number 12 |
The December 2013 Solar Bulletin is now available. Please visit the Solar Bulletin web page to download your copy: http://www.aavso.org/solar-bulletin |
| 14 January | Almost Twenty-Five Million! ... and Counting |
We are approaching a milestone in the AAVSO International Database. Are you counting?
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| 13 January | AAVSO Newsletter 59 is published |
AAVSO Newsletter 59 - January 2014 |
If you take a look at the observation total in the Recent Activity section of the 
