Dear colleagues, Many interesting rendezvous between visually observable bright comets and frequently observed variable stars occur in March. Please see the page: http://vsnet.aerith.net/comet/rendezvous/current.html Here I pick up some special events. mu Cep is Garnet Star. 2002 Mar. 4 5h UT 1.235 deg ( 74.1 arcmin) C/2001 OG108 ( LONEOS ) 21h35m.0 +42o56' 10.0 mag Q Cyg (NA) 21h41m.7 +42o50' 3.0-15.6 mag 2002 Mar. 5 11h UT 1.351 deg ( 81.0 arcmin) C/2001 OG108 ( LONEOS ) 21h35m.3 +43o42' 9.9 mag SS Cyg (UGSS) 21h42m.7 +43o35' 7.7-12.4 mag 2002 Mar. 16 8h UT 2.619 deg (157.1 arcmin) C/2002 C1 ( Ikeya-Zhang ) 01h25m.6 +16o07' 3.6 mag SN 2002ap in M74 01h36m.4 +15o45' 12.5 mag 2002 Mar. 17 11h UT 0.512 deg ( 30.7 arcmin) 2001 TX16 10h00m.4 +32o41' 15.0 mag 3C 232 (QSO) 09h58m.3 +32o24' 15.8 mag 2002 Mar. 23 5h UT 0.153 deg ( 9.2 arcmin) C/2001 OG108 ( LONEOS ) 21h42m.3 +58o48' 9.2 mag mu Cep (SRC) 21h43m.5 +58o47' 3.4-5.1 mag Best regards, -- Seiichi Yoshida comet@aerith.net http://vsnet.aerith.net/