The following notice has been posted re a 6mag object in the Hyades. You may have picked it up on one of your images....now is the time to check!!
AAVSO Special Notice #300
Possible bright transient in the Hyades field
October 23, 2012
Ian Shelton (Mount Allison University & U. Toronto) wrote in
Astronomer's Telegram #4513 that a possible 6th magnitude transient with
very red color was detected in a DSLR image of the the field of the
Hyades on 2012 October 22.4361 (JD 2456222.9361). Coordinates given for
the transient are the following (J2000):
RA: 04 23 29 , Dec: +17 58 29
No additional information about the exposure, filters, or other imaging
techniques used were given, and only a single image was presented in the
Telegram. We have independently checked VSX to ensure that there is no
known variable star within 10 arcminutes of this position, and the Minor
Planet Center's MPChecker utility (available at
http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/checkmp.cgi ) yields no minor
planets coincident with that position and time.
This is a very tentative report, and confirming observations are required.
If the transient is confirmed, followup observations -- including
spectroscopy -- are strongly encouraged.
This AAVSO Special Notice was prepared by M. Templeton.
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