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IAUC 3863: 1983p; 1983l; 1983j; 1982d; NOVALIKE Var IN Lib

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                                                  Circular No. 3863
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
Postal Address: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
TWX 710-320-6842 ASTROGRAM CAM     Telephone 617-864-5758


COMET SHOEMAKER (1983p)
     Carolyn Shoemaker reports that she has discovered a comet on
the 1983 RD prediscovery exposures with the 0.46-m Palomar
Schmidt.  The object is diffuse and condensed with no apparent
tail.  Her averaged measurements follow:

      1983 UT              R.A.  (1950.0)   Decl.       m1

      Sept. 7.31388     23 53 13.19     +20 37 55.8     16
            7.33194     23 53 10.88     +20 37 32.2


COMET CERNIS (1983l)
     Total visual magnitude estimates: Sept. 4.35 UT, 10.0 (J.
Bortle, Stormville, NY, 20 x 80 binoculars); 6.32, 9.0 (C. E.
Spratt, Victoria, BC, 0.20-m reflector); 8.32, 9.9 (C. S. Morris,
Harvard, MA, 0.25-m reflector); 9.35, 9.7 (Bortle).


PERIODIC COMET IRAS (1983j)
     Total visual magnitude estimates: Aug. 20.46 UT, 11.6 (C. E.
Spratt, Victoria, BC, 0.20-m reflector); Sept. 2.18, 12.1 (C. S.
Morris, Harvard, MA, 0.25-m reflector); 9.35, 11.3 (J. Bortle,
Stormville, NY, 0.32-m reflector; 3'5 tail in p.a. 230).


PERIODIC COMET TEMPEL 2 (1982d)
     Total visual magnitude estimates: Aug. 13.36 UT, 10.2 (C. E.
Spratt, Victoria, BC, 0.20-m reflector); 16.33, 9.6 (J. E. Bortle,
Stormville, NY, 20 x 80 binoculars); 19.43, 11.0 (Spratt); 21.46,
10.8 (Spratt); Sept. 4.30, 10.6 (C. S. Morris, Harvard, MA, 0.25-m
reflector); 9.35, 10.3 (Bortle).


NOVALIKE VARIABLE IN LIBRA
     B. E. J. Pagel, Royal Greenwich Observatory; and M. M.
Phillips, Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, report that a
low-dispersion SIT-vidicon spectrogram obtained on Sept. 1.0 UT
with the Cerro Tololo 1.5-m telescope showed strong H-gamma, H-beta and
H-alpha emission.  The apparent visual continuum magnitude estimated
from this spectrum was 14.1 (cf. IAUC 3854, 3856).


1983 September 14              (3863)              Brian G. Marsden

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