According to MEDUZA database (available via www.meduza.org) the maximum of AY Dra occured in April 2001 (12.1 mag) and in May it has been fading from 12.2 to 13.5 mag. Last maximum occured in July 2000 - 10.9 mag Sometimes in autumn 2000, occured minimum more deep then 14.1 mag Regards, Lubos Brat - MEDUZA group ----- Original Message ----- From: <aah@nofs.navy.mil> To: <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Sent: 1. června 2001 4:46 Subject: [vsnet-chat 4491] AY Dra | The MEDUZA observing program (Ondrej Pejcha) mentioned | about a month ago that this SRA might undergo very deep | minimum, and that further observations were warranted. | I have prepared a field photometry file for this object at | http://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/aah/sequence/aydra.dat | and Bruce Sumner has been kind enough to extract a | visual sequence from the dataset: | http://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/aah/sequence/sumner/aydra.seq | Arne |