CI Aql brightening and fading The available observations suggest that the brightening trend of CI Aql continued until last night. Time-series CCD photometry by the Kyoto team (Katsura Matsumoto and Makoto Uemura) showed a rapid, almost linear, fading by ~0.1 mag within 2+ hours on May 23. Regards, Taichi Kato VSNET Collaboration team