Dear all, We started tonight observation of HV Vir just now (20:00 UT) at Kyoto. As reported by Patrick Schmee,t he object is in outburst and about ~12.5 mag (this is very preliminary estimate and not so precise). In Japan, Torii-san is observing this star from 16:00 UT. Regards, Ryoko Ishioka On behalf of the VSNET Collaboration team