[vsnet-alert 76] (No subject in original)

[bas@lowell.edu (Brian Skiff)]

     In reference to Kato-san's request for a check on the discovery citations
for V725 Aql, I have looked at both the Rohlfs list and the Sonneberg MVS 
chart series.
     Rohlfs' position (Ver\"off. Sternwarte Sonneberg 1, 168) is given to 
only 1s/0'.1 precision, and so may not be definitive:  

19 49 50  +10 26.4 (1855) 
19 56 44  +10 49.4 (2000)

This publication is also the source of the photo-blue magnitude range of
13.7-16.2.
     The Sonneberg chart (on MVS 326 --- MVS 245, cited by Kato-san is for the
introductory remarks to the series of loose-leaf charts) has rather small
scale, but indicates a position somewhat south of the Vogt & Bateson or
Downes & Shara charts.  A possible very faint candidate lies 2.5mm = 14" south
of the object marked on the Downes & Shara chart.  This star, however, is
much fainter than the mag. 16 quiescent brightness noted by Rohlfs.  Also, the
chart is small enough that a trivial error in plotting could place the
variable at the position marked by V&B and D&S.
     Sorry this wasn't definitive!
\Brian

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