DY Per
A fading had been reported since the beginning of 2002 (vsnet-campaign-rcb
6, 8,
11,
20,
21,
26,
28,
30).
A. Alksnis reported that the fading rate was 0.04mag/d in red light and 0.025mag/d
in blue. The object was reported to be 11.0mag (red) and 14.6mag (blue)
on April 22 (vsnet-campaign-rcb
25). The slow fading still continues (vsnet-campaign-rcb
26). 104 The object further faded to 13.4mag on May 1 and 2
(vsnet-campaign-rcb
28, 30).
The fading continued until it was at least 13.8-13.9mag (vsnet-campaign-rcb
46, 47).
A start of recovering from the deep minimum was reported in July (vsnet-campaign-rcb
51, 57,
64).