[vsnet-alert 7584] Re: (fwd) XX Dra outburst?

[Brian Skiff <Brian.Skiff@lowell.edu>]

>>      We have detected an outburst of the poorly known variable star XX Dra
>> (R.A.: 19h 03m 58.9s Dec.:+49d 16' 30" )....

     It looks as though this star is poorly-known even as to position,
at least in SIMBAD and the GCVS v4.1.  The position is probably from the
Carlsberg meridian circle:

19 03 59.24  +49 16 40.4  (J2000)

The following identifications pertain:

XX Dra = GSC 3549-1722 = IRAS 19026+4912 = ROTSE1 J190359.49+491641.4

The star is present but saturated in the 2MASS data, so the photometry and'
coordinates there are useless.  The ROTSE-I catalogue shows no derived
period.  I note that red-light magnitudes from USNO-A2.0, GSC, GSC-2.2,
APM, etc. are in the range 10.5 to 11.5, and the USNO-B1.0 far-red (roughly
I band) magnitude is 10.2.  So the reported magnitude of I ~8 seems only
somewhat brighter than "normal".

\Brian

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