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Did any Japanese or far eastern observers have a chance to measure this object after the initial announcement while it was still fairly bright last night (Sep 20 08UT to 20UT) ? On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Taichi Kato wrote: > > Whilst observing HX Peg (starting to outburst at V=14.0) I noticed a > > new/brighter object nearly coincident with the star USNO-B1.0 1026-0769191 > > (also marked as comp 155 on Simonsen chart 000906). Approx location = 23 > > 40 04 +12 38 01 (J2000). I made 3 observations > > over about 30 minutes, and it seems fairly steady about V=14.6 MPChecker > > shows one object within 15 arcmin (2000 AD23) but its several arcmin away > > and V=17.9 > > The ASAS-3 most recent observation (0.17 d ago) apparently did not > positively record this object. > > Regards, > Taichi Kato > >
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