From macho@lensing.astro.washington.edu Sun Aug 29 03:44 JST 1999 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 11:21:59 -0700 (PDT) From: User Macho <macho@lensing.astro.washington.edu> To: macho-alerts@lensing.astro.washington.edu Subject: MACHO Alert 99-BLG-57, Level 2 Content-Type: text Content-Length: 734 Dear Colleagues- The MACHO project has detected a candidate microlensing event in progress towards the Galactic bulge. Event 99-BLG-57 Star ID 310.37407.336 RA (J2000) 18:18:28.2 DEC (J2000) -22:45:51 V 18.7 R 17.7 Binary lens or binary source event. Reached maximum of A ~1.4 on 20 July, and now at A ~1.7 and rising. Finding charts and lightcurves are available on the web page at http://darkstar.astro.washington.edu or ftp site darkstar.astro.washington.edu directories macho/Alert/99-*. If you wish to no longer receive these bulletins please notify us at macho@astro.washington.edu.