- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 23:24:35 MST
- To: gerard@simbad.u-strasbg.fr, samus@sai.msu.edu, showell@uwyo.edu, vsnet@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
- From: bas@lowell.Lowell.Edu (Brian Skiff)
- Subject: [vsnet 1069] AX Cap position correction
Folks,
I have just noticed that the position for AX Cap = EQ 2006-17, Hank Holt's
serendipitous dwarf nova discovery, is given in error in Howell et al. 1994,
IBVS 4074 (the discovery announcement). The correct position should be:
AX Cap: 20 06 05.5 -17 25 28 (1950)
20 08 56.9 -17 16 38 (2000)
Notice that a decimal point was omitted from the RA seconds in the original
publication, placing it some 10' too far east. I verified the position by
comparing the Digitized Sky Survey against an early CCD frame of the field
taken by Howell with the Lowell 1.8-m telescope.
The star is listed in SIMBAD and in the new variable-star name-list with
the wrong position. SIMBAD also omits a second publication that mentions the
star, viz. 1995ApJ...439..337H, which should be added to the biblio. Finally,
the maximum magnitude should be 16.8, not 18.6, as given in the new name-list.
The RASNZ VSS evidently have a chart of the field; this should be verified
as having the correct location indicated.
\Brian
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