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Surfing the Harvard Plate Collection: Historical Outbursts of V725 Aquilae

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Martha L. Hazen

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Cambridge, MA 02138

Presented at the 84th AAVSO Spring Meeting, May 13, 1995

Abstract

A search of the Harvard College Observatory plate collection has revealed four previously unknown outbursts of the cataclysmic variable V725 Aquilae, as well as a confirmation of an outburst observed on Sonneberg Observatory plates. Four additional possible outbursts, at plate limit, were also seen. The true position of V725 Aql is some 10-15 arcsec south of that shown in recently published finding charts.