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Re: (cba:news) (cba:chat) V1251 Cyg - mag 18 (Joe Patterson) [2008-11-06T04:12:36Z]


OK gang, I think that rings the curtain down on V1251 Cyg. The outburst might well show echoes, but in my judgment we won't learn more from them. Tracking the fading outburst is plenty important, but others will do it. Not worth the struggles with eighteenth magnitude, plus the possible echo light which really confuses the periodic signal (in my experience).

KP Cas abd UW Tri are very likely still rewarding with fine light curves. And I strongly recommend OT0238+35, another flashy new superhumper announced today by Maehara. That's OT_J023839.1+355648. I'm sorry I don't know more about this object; I drew a blank on it. Maybe some of you can dig up some useful info, which I managed to miss.

And it's a fine season for V455 And, for which we continue to seek fast photometry (15 s, and preferably even a little faster if you can cope with it).

Sorry for everything so northern.  I'll try to correct!

joe


Tom Krajci wrote:
I started a run on V1251 Cyg tonight, and it's very faint. I had to stack multiple 120-second images to get a rough estimate that it's near magnitude 18.

I really can't do time series on such a faint target. I'll take data tonight...in the hopes that there might be a rebrightening, but other than that...I really can't provide much other data.

Tom Krajci