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Dear colleagues, Our yesterdays observation shows that AL Com is rapidly fading. Its magnitude is ~16.7 mag. At 8 June, the object was still bright at ~14.8 mag. So the decline rate during these three days is ~0.6 mag/day (before 8 June, the decline rate was ~0.1 mag/day). AL Com was 14.7 at 10.949 June (UT) in the report of visual observations from Gary Poyner. Probably, the rapid decline occured during 10.949 and 11.5 (UT): 24 dars after the onset of the current outburst. In the 1995 outburst, another long lasting outburst started following the rapid decline 28 days after the the onset of the outburst. More observations in this phase are strongly needed. Regards, Ryoko Ishioka VSNET Collaboration team
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vsnet-adm@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
