Greetings, This note indicates that EP Car is not in the GCVS position. Can Andrew or Rod provide an offset in arcseconds to the new position? We don't have access to the RASNZ VSS charts. I'll observe over the next few nights if clear. Regards, Stan ---------- > From: Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> > To: vsnet-alert@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp > Subject: [vsnet-alert 4232] EP Car outburst (Pearce) > Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:32 PM > > EP Car outburst (Pearce) > > The following report from Andrew Pearce indicates the suggested dwarf nova > EP Car is undergoing an outburst. Astrometry and photometry are encouraged. > EP Car was in outburst on 1999 Aug. 17 (Stubbings, mv=14.8) and in 1999 May > (Stubbings et al., long outburst reaching mv=14.3). If the current outburst > turns out to be a long one, time-resolved CCD photometry is strongly > recommended. > > Cataloged EP Car position from GCVS: > > 102824.2 -585751 (2000.0) CAREP M: 13.0 <16 P - - - > > From: andrew.pearce@clough.com.au > Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 08:41:26 +0800 > Subject: EP Car > > Gents > > I made an observation of EP Car last night as detailed below: > > Feb 15.778UT >14.8 > Feb 16.777UT 14.8 > > The star was in the new position for EP Car as marked up by Rod on the VSS RASNZ > chart, maybe a little bit more midway between the stars 'e' and 'f'. > > Regards > Andrew Pearce > > --- > > CAREP 20000215.778 <148 PEA > CAREP 20000216.777 148 PEA >