[vsnet-chat 409] Re: asteroid encounters with variables

[Stan Walker <astroman@voyager.co.nz>]

>Fraser Farrell wrote in [vsnet-chat 400]:
>
>> Many years ago I embarrassed
>> myself by reporting 5 Astrea - near-stationary at quadrature - as a
>> nova!
>
Taichi Kato commented:

>    Also many years ago, I was embarassed by an 8-mag asteroid (Pallas?)
>closely near the position of the famous recurrent nova, T CrB.  Being
>rather far from the ecliptic, I could not think of an asteroid.
>What was my excitement at the first sight of the low power field!
>
We've probably all had similar experiences. Brian Marino and I got a call
from one of our visual observers about a CV being bright - one that had only
been seen once before - and we began UBV measures with great enthusiasm. It
was lowish, so the U wasn't very strong but after four hours we had a nice
light curve of a CV in the period gap at 2.5 hours. But the reductions also
showed that the colours were reflected sunlight! A real disappointment. In
the days before Project Pluto's Guide it took us a couple of days to get an
answer back from Pam Kilmartin as to which asteroid it was. 

Regards,
Stan Walker

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