Tue, 06/11/2019 - 16:32
V1047 Centauri (N)
https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=136618
Brightening by 2 magnitudes in recent Gaia Alerts data (Gaia19cfn):
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19cfn/
CENV1047 20190416.184 18.08G Gaia
CENV1047 20190610.174 16.20G Gaia
CENV1047 20190610.248 16.14G Gaia
No remarkable brightening in ASAS-SN Sky Patrol (Shappee et al. 2014ApJ...788...48S and Kochanek et al. 2017PASP..129j4502K) observations, which are contaminated by nearby stars:
https://asas-sn.osu.edu/light_curves/4b706ca4-5ff6-41f2-9f54-3b4d3c8ff0…
*** Follow-up observations (e.g. spectroscopy, multiband photometry) are urgently required. ***
Clear skies,
Patrick
Hi Patrick,
I need to finish performing a proper data reduction, but based on visual comparison with Johnson V-band images I acquired earlier today remotely from Siding Springs, yes it seems to be @ ~16 Vmag.
I'll do my best to get more data in the coming days.
Nick
V1047 Cen Sequence Updated & Extended Fainter
Tim Crawford, Sequence Team
Przemek Mroz and Andrzej Udalski (Warsaw U. Observatory), on behalf of the OGLE team: "Rebrightening of V1047 Cen (Nova Cen 2005)"
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=12876
Quote: "We encourage follow-up spectroscopic observations."
Archival OGLE light curve: http://ogle.astrouw.edu.pl/cont/4_main/var/V1047_Cen.pdf