BELGIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY V.V.S. - Working Group Variable Stars Cataclysmic Variables Circular No.112 1996, October 16 Ed.: T. Vanmunster, Walhostraat 1A, 3401 Landen, BELGIUM Internet: tvanmuns@innet.be TEL. 32-11-831504 -------------------------------------------------------------- The CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES Home Page: http://www.cv.psi.edu =================================================================== DO Dra [UG, 10.0B - 15.1B] ========================== Gary Poyner, Birmingham, UK reports his visual detection of an outburst of DO Dra, a most interesting object which is on the TA/BAAVSS Recurrent Objects Programme. Tonny Vanmunster, Landen, Belgium has confirmed the outburst by CCD. These are the available observations, obtained a few minutes ago : 1996 Oct 16.784 UT, 12.7 (G. Poyner, 0.40-m refl., seq: VSNET); Oct 16.787 UT, 12.0 (T. Vanmunster, 0.25-m SCT, unfilt. CCD, seq: VSNET); DO Dra was last seen in a bright outburst on September 27, 1990, when the object reached mag 9.1. Several minor brightenings have been reported since. Tonny Vanmunster