Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams

CBAT "Transient Object Followup Reports"

PSN J15151721+7529095

PSN J15151721+7529095   2014 01 18.66  *  15 15 17.21 +75 29 09.5  17.0 U   18E   3N            9 3  

2014 01 28.805

This transient was observed on 2014 01 28.805 by Gianluca Masi, Francesca Nocentini and Patrick Schmeer, remotely using the 17"-f/6.8 corrected Dall-Kirkham robotic unit part of the Virtual Telescope Project facility, at Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Ceccano, Italy. 120-seconds exposures, unfiltered, show the source at mag. 16.3 (R mags for the reference stars from UCAC-4). We also performed astrometry, getting the following end figures: 17.15; 09.9 (J2000.0, mean residuals of 0.2" on both axes).

2014 01 18.66

This object was discovered on Jan.18.66 2014 UT during the test observations of the Antarctic Survey Telescope (AST) in Mohe, China. The discovery and reference images: http://www.thca.tsinghua.edu.cn/~wangxf/AST3/PSNJ15151721+7529095.png.

2014 02 02.0626

I imaged this new object using a C14 and SBIG ST9XE unfiltered 120s exposure and measured its position using 31 UCAC-4 stars RA=15 15 17.13 Dec+75 29 08.9 (0.04 0.07) mag RC 15.5 Denis Buczynski Tarbatness Observatory MPC Code I81