[vsnet-campaign-v838mon 78] (fwd) Re: [vsnet-alert 7163] V838 Mon dramatically faded ???!

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 21:34:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Lew Cook <lcoo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [vsnet-alert 7163] V838 Mon dramatically faded ???!

It is quite bright on my monitor, perhaps around mag 7-8.
Lew
--- Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> 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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Regards, Lew 
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