[vsnet-chat 3487] Re: V452 Cas

[aah@nofs.navy.mil]

Maciej Reszelski commented on the identification for V452 Cas.
There is a field photometry file for this object (requested
by Patrick Schmeer) at
http://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/aah/sequence/v452cas.dat
in which the original (red) D&S object is identified as:
      RA          DEC                 V      B-V
  00:52:18.30  +53:51:43.5 (J2000)  15.798  +1.323
DWS later refined their id to point to the bluer star to the
northwest:
  00:52:18.03  +53:51:49.9 (J2000)  18.81 +0.28  (2 nights)
There have been a couple of outbursts recorded of this NW star
(e.g., Oct99,Nov99) with Tonny getting a 2h07m superhump period.

I don't know why USNO-A1.0 does not contain both of these stars,
but close pairs are always hard to automatically resolve.  Don't
trust USNO-A to contain every star down to the plate limit; always
check against either DSS or the NOFS pixel server.
Arne

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