BELGIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY V.V.S. - Working Group Variable Stars Cataclysmic Variables Circular No.59 1995, September 23 Ed.: T. Vanmunster, Walhostraat 1A, 3401 Landen, BELGIUM Internet: tvanmuns@innet.be TEL. 32-11-831504 =================================================================== FN And [UG, 13.5p - 17.5p] ========================== Gary Poyner, Birmingham, UK has informed us that he has detected an outburst of FN And, which is on the Recurrent Objects Programme. John Day, Leicester, UK was able to confirm, using a 40-cm telescope. Here are the details : 1995 Sep 20.004 UT, [16.2 (G. Poyner, 0.40-m refl., seq: TA); Sep 20.864 UT, [15.3 (T. Vanmunster, 0.35-m refl., seq: TA); Sep 22.938 UT, 14.1 (G. Poyner); Sep 22.994 UT, 14.0 (G. Poyner); Sep 23.009 UT, 14.1 (J. Day, 0.40-m refl., seq: TA); FN And was last seen in outburst on July 20, 1995. That outburst was independently detected by several amateurs (see CVC 47). The object then reached mag 13.0 (CVC 49). PV Per [UG, 14.9p - 20:p] ========================= The table below lists some follow-up observations of the PV Per outburst, which was reported in CVC 58. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE (UT) MAGN MS SEQ OBSERVER REMARKS SOURCE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1995 09 04.109 [14.9 mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. CVC58 1995 09 15.881 14.5 mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. CVC58 1995 09 15.886 14.7: mv GSC Broens, E. 35-cm refl. CVC58 1995 09 15.875 14.6 mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. CVC58 1995 09 17.860 [14.3 mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 17.869 15.0: mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 17.897 14.5 mv GSC Broens, E. 35-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 18.592 14.9: CU Iida, N. 16-cm+ST6,blended image VSNET 1995 09 20.882 [14.9 mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 23.008 [14.9 mv GSC Poyner, G. 40-cm refl. VSNET FX Cep [UGSS?, 15.0p - 17.5p] ============================= FX Cep, reported in outburst in CVC 57, has returned to quiescence, as can be derived from the photometric summary below. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE (UT) MAGN MS SEQ OBSERVER REMARKS SOURCE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1995 09 11.891 14.9: mv Pietz, J. 40-cm refl. CVC57 1995 09 12.847 14.9 mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. CVC57 1995 09 13.885 [14.2 mv GSC Poyner, G. 40-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 14.807 15.0 mv Pietz, J. 40-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 14.831 15.3 mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 15.814 15.3: mv Pietz, J. 40-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 15.835 15.1: mv GSC Broens, E. 35-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 15.853 15.4: mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 17.889 [14.6 mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 19.853 [14.6 mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 19.953 [15.1 mv GSC Poyner, G. 40-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 20.900 [15.2 mv GSC Vanmunster, T. 35-cm refl. VSNET 1995 09 22.913 [15.4 mv GSC Poyner, G. 40-cm refl. VSNET IP Peg [UG, 12.0B - 16.6B] ========================== Given the enormous amount of IP Peg observations there were reported in recent electronic mails, we have decided not to compile a photometric summary this time. Tonny Vanmunster