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[vsnet-obs 7956] SW Ursae Majoris in bright outburst



***SW URSAE MAJORIS ***

The dwarf nova SW UMA is in a rare outburst as indicated by the
following observation by undersigned:

  1997 UT     Observation  Cl.  Chart   Seq.   Mag.  Instrument
Oct. 19.969   961-7;994-5   2   VSNET  Tycho   10.4  20.3-cm SCT

This was an independent detection of the outburst and confirms
the report by Mr. G. Hanson [vsnet-alert 1269].

The previous bright outburst (a superoutburst) took place in
April last year.

Yours sincerely,
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