Note: Please continue coverage of V1280 Sco until further notice. - Elizabeth O. Waagen, 13 April 2020
May 11, 2018 : Dr. Frederick Walter (Stony Brook University) has requested AAVSO assistance in monitoring V1280 Sco (Nova Sco 2007).
Note: V392 Per still has not returned to its pre-outburst magnitude. Please continue multicolor observations at least until it fades to V~16.5. - Elizabeth O. Waagen, 20 April 2021
V392 Per has not returned to its pre-outburst magnitude. Please continue multicolor observations at least until it fades to V~16.5. - Elizabeth O. Waagen, 7 April 2020
April 30, 2018:
Event: Nova in Perseus - V392 Per = TCP J04432130+4721280
April 25, 2018: Dr. Jeno Sokoloski (Columbia University) and Mx. Adrian Lucy (graduate student, Columbia University) have requested AAVSO observations in support of a search underway by Mx. Lucy for symbiotic stars.
Note: Please continue to observe AG Dra until further notice. - Elizabeth O. Waagen, 30 July 2021
April 24, 2018: Drs. Jaroslav Merc and Rudolf Gális (both of the Pavel Jozef Šafárik University (Slovakia)), on behalf of their scientific team, have requested AAVSO assistance in observing the symbiotic variable AG Dra as a follow-up to spectroscopic observations and in order to monitor the system in its current outburst, which began in early April.
April 11, 2018: Dr. Gregory Sivakoff (University of Alberta), on behalf of a large number of collaborators, has requested AAVSO observers' assistance in monitoring the outbursting black hole X-ray binary ASASSN-18ey = MAXI J1820+070 in support of a multiwavelength "blitz" campaign taking place tonight and into tomorrow.
March 29, 2018: Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 618, Anna Pala (Ph.D. candidate, University of Warwick) informs us that the date and time of the HST observations planned for the faint polar cataclysmic variable SDSS J153817.35+512338.0 have been set for
2018 April 6 17:33:26 - 21:33:19 UT
March 26, 2018
Event: Nova in Canis Major - Nova CMa 2018 = TCP J07134590-2112330
Discovered by: Yuji Nakamura (Kameyama, Mie, Japan) (reported to CBAT by M. Soma, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Discovery magnitude: CCD magnitude 12.0, using a 10-cm f/3 reflector
Discovery date: 2018 March 24.496 UT
Coordinates (2000.0): R.A. 07 13 45.84 Decl. -21 12 31.3 (from VSX)
March 21, 2018
Event: Nova in Carina - ASASSN-18fv
Discovered by: All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN)
Discovery magnitude: brighter than magnitude 10 V (image was saturated)
Discovery date: 2018 March 20.32 UT
Coordinates (2000.0): R.A. 10 36 13.71 Decl. -59 35 55.1 (from VSX)
March 21, 2018: Dr. Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech University) has requested AAVSO observers' assistance in monitoring the outbursting black hole X-ray binary ASASSN-18ey = MAXI J1820+070 in support of VLT and XMM observations scheduled for:
2018 22 March 08-09:30 UT and 29 March 08-09:30 UT
V time series are requested, with as short a cadence as possible (ideally, a time resolution of 0.1 second or better).
March 19, 2018: Drs. Gregory Sivakoff (University of Alberta), Poshak Gandhi (University of Southampton), and Diego Altamirano (University of Southampton) have requested AAVSO observers' assistance in monitoring the new black hole X-ray binary candidate ASASSN-18ey = MAXI J1820+070.
