[vsnet-alert 335] BZ UMa's current brightness appears to be "normal"

["Caffey James F." <jfc898s@astro.smsu.edu>]

Well, we've now fully reduced last night's data on BZ UMa, and found

            V = 15.88 +- 0.07
          B-V = -0.02 +- 0.12

The rough estimate that we made on-site was based only on peak counts,
and turned out to be about a magnitude brighter than the truth.  Sorry
about that.  This is still well above the minimum of 17.8, but as we
*now* know from Jarcevic et al. (thank you Dr. Kato for the reference!)
the normal range for this star is near to V=15.  If anything, it's a
bit below normal right now, though it seems to vary by up to a magnitude
on timescales of a day or two.  There's certainly no need for any
special alert.  (Of course, having said that, it will probably
superoutburst two days from now! 8-)

Sorry for the false alarm.  It wouldn't have happened if we'd had better
references from the start.
                                   Claia Bryja   cob585f@cnas.smsu.edu
                                   Jim Caffey    jfc898s@astro.smsu.edu

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