[vsnet-campaign-v838mon 76] Re: [vsnet-alert 7163] V838 Mon dramatically faded ???!

["James Bedient" <bedient@hawaii.rr.com>]

All -

I estimated V838 Mon at 7.2 on Feb. 4.292.

In addition. V838 Mon continues quite bright on a Stardial
(www.astro.uiuc.edu/stardial) red CCD image taken Feb. 5.161 - V838 Mon itself
is saturated but looks to be near 7th magnitude.

Jim Bedient
Honolulu, Hawaii

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From: "Taichi Kato" <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
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Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 6:13 PM
Subject: [vsnet-alert 7163] V838 Mon dramatically faded ???!


> V838 Mon dramatically faded ???!
>
>    We have received the following yet unconfirmed report that V838 Mon
> (Possible Nova in Mon = GSC 4822.39) disappeared!  Yasuo Watanabe
> (Kanagawa, Japan) reports that the object was totally invisible at
> the time of the observation, and is fainter than the nearby 9.4 mag star.
>
>    Has anyone recorded the object around this time or confirmed the event?
>
> object         YYYYMMDD(UT)   mag  code
> MONV838        20020204.642   <94  Wny.VSOLJ
>
> Observer's code:
>   Wny: Y.Watanabe (Kanagawa.Japan) Instruments:10B
>
>

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