Special Notice #87: New WZ Sge variable in Hya [VSX J111217.4-353828]
January 5, 2008: VSNET announced the discovery of an optical transient by Marcin Sokolowski of the "Pi of the Sky" group (alert 9764, 12/21
January 5, 2008: VSNET announced the discovery of an optical transient by Marcin Sokolowski of the "Pi of the Sky" group (alert 9764, 12/21
January 10, 2008
Coordinates: RA 01:10:12.98 Dec. +60:04:35.9 (2000.0)
AAVSO observer Glenn Chaple, Townsend, MA, reports that the UGSS+EA type dwarf nova HT Cas is in outburst for the first time since February 2002, with his visual observation of 13.6 on January 10.0076 UT. Makoto Uemura and colleagues at Hiroshima University (vsnet-alert 9807) confirmed the outburst with an observation of 14.02V on January 10.5278 UT. This outburst looks to be a normal, brief outburst, probably lasting only 2-3 days.
January 14, 2008: Photometric and visual observations of the dwarf novae BZ UMa are requ
January 22, 2008: Taichi Kato drew attention in vsnet-alert 9834 to another star [V498 Hya] on the CBAT unconfirmed observations page:
February 7, 2008: Further to AAVSO Special Notice #92, the recent optical transient in CMi,
February 14, 2008: The infrequently outbursting WZ Sge-type dwarf nova HV Vir is currently in outburst.
June 4, 2008
September 22, 2008