AAVSO Alert Notice 391: Rare Outburst of V358 Lyr

Event: Rare outburst of V358 Lyr

Discovered By: Jeremy Shears and Gary Poyner, BAAVSS,
from a Bradford Robotic Telescope image.  Confirmed by
Shawn Dvorak, Rolling Hills Observatory.

Discovery Magnitude: CV=16.11 +/- 0.04

Discovery Date: November 22.917 UT

Positions:
observer      RA (J2000) Dec
Antipin  18:59:32.95 +42:24:12.2  (+/- 0.5arcsec)
BRT:     18:59:32.99 +42:24:12.0  (+/- 0.2arcsec)
Dvorak:  18:59:32.97 +42:24:11.7  (+/- 0.2arcsec)
Krajci:  18:59:32.96 +42:24:12.0  (+/- 0.1arcsec)

Magnitudes:
Observer        date        magnitude
Shears/Poyner  Nov 22.917  16.11 CV +/- 0.04
Dvorak         Nov 22.98   16.14 CV +/- 0.04
Krajci         Nov 23.082  15.92 V  +/- 0.03

This is a likely WZ Sge variable.  The only known outburst was
in 1965, as reported by Hoffmeister (1967, AN 289, 205). At
that time, two photographic plates gave magnitudes of 16.42
and 17.31.  Antipin, Samus and Kroll (2004, IBVS 5544) looked
at the original plate material and revised Hoffmeister's
coordinates to the values listed above.

Antipin et al. checked 30 years of Moscow photographic plates
and found no other outburst.  AAVSO reports over the past
decade have had fainter-than limits around V=15, brighter than
the known outburst, and so not a strong limit on subsequent
outbursts.  Over the past year, however, the fainter-than limits
have typically been around V=17.5, and no outburst has been seen.

Henden gives limiting magnitudes from USNO-Flagstaff observations:
2004 September 03  1.0m telescope  V < 22.2
2004 October 15    1.55m telescope V < 22.5

This gives a minimum outburst amplitude of 6.6 magnitudes.

Tom Krajci (Astrokolkhoz Observatory), using a C11 telescope,
reports a 3-hour BVRI time series.  The magnitude listed above
is an average of the 29 V-band images, and indicates no obvious
brightening or fading over the interval.  The color is blue,
as expected for a CV outburst.

All magnitudes listed above were obtained by Henden from images
submitted to the AAVSO, along with the BV calibration sequence
from VSP.  The coordinates for Shears/Poyner, Dvorak, and Krajci
were obtained by Henden using a pre-release copy of UCAC3 as
the reference catalog.

Time series photometry and visual monitoring of this rare outburst
are requested from our observers.  Charts are available through
our on-line chart-plotting tool, VSP:
http://www.aavso.org/observing/charts/vsp/

Clear skies and good observing!

This Alert Notice prepared by A. Henden 

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