From: "Tom Krajci" From: "Tomas L. Gomez" V1343 Aql. During the 2 hours that the series lasted, the comparison >star marked as 112 in the AAVSO chart seemed to brighten by 0.05 >mag. Is there any place where I can check if this star is known to >be variable?. 03 20 (2000). Simbad does not identify it as variable: t=1&Radius=10&Radius.unit=arcmin&CooFrame=FK5&CooEpoch=2000&CooEqui=2000&out put.max=all&o.catall=on&output.mesdisp=N&Bibyear1=1983&Bibyear2=2006&Frame1= FK5&Frame2=FK4&Frame3=G&Equi1=2000.0&Equi2=1950.0&Equi3=2000.0&Epoch1=2000.0 &Epoch2=1950.0&Epoch3=2000.0 With Simbad you can make a search on coordinates, identification/catalog name, etc. We can also check the ROTSE/NSVS data: http://skydot.lanl.gov/nsvs/cone_search.php?ra=19%3A12%3A06.7&dec=%2B05%3A03 %3A20&rad=1&saturated=on&nocorr=on&lonpts=on&hiscat=on&hicorr=on&hisigcorr=o n&radecflip=on Your query: RA: 19:12:06.7 DEC: +05:03:20 radius: 1 arc min Decimal RA: 288.02792 Decimal DEC: 5.05556 There are 0 detections in this area (separately counting synonyms) ROTSE can't help us here in this rich star field, even though the star is fairly bright. And ASAS? http://archive.princeton.edu/~asas/ ,0,0 shows a star that appears constant within its limits of detection...based on casual visual inspection of the graph. I hope this helps. Tom Krajci Cloudcroft, New Mexico http://overton2.tamu.edu/aset/krajci/ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/301 - Release Date: 4/4/2006 _______________________________________________