Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Tue, 05/10/2022 - 11:53

The BOOTES-1A wide field image telescope at the BOOTES-1 station in Mazagon (INTA-CEDEA, Huelva, Spain) telescope automatically detected a rise in the flux of the ASASSN-14FC dwarf-nova at 00:09:11 UT on 7 May 2022. Its optical flux increased to 15.1 mag. (i.e. an increase of 2 mag.) in clear filter using Gmag from gaia on photometry calibration. ~3 days before the outburst detection (2022-05-03 23:28:20) we do not detect any source at given coordinates with a limit magnitude of 14.7. Following this alert, a set of three images were obtained 2-3 days after with the BOOTES-1B 0.3m robotic telescope located nearby.

15.11 [+/-0.04] - 2022-05-07 00:09:11
13.51 [+/-0.01] - 2022-05-09 02:10:56
13.37 [+/-0.01] - 2022-05-09 21:41:49
13.17 [+/-0.01] - 2022-05-09 22:43:02