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paw
Affiliation
Variable Stars South (VSS)
Thu, 07/28/2016 - 10:26
The RCB star WX CrA is fading. See LCG.
Alan.
ocn
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Alan, thankyou for your notification. Looking back 7000d (1997) I see only 1 vis obs below the 15.0 line (around the year 2000). As we've seen with a number of other RCBs, a full blown fade can be 8 mags or so. Perhaps this has never been documented in WX CrA before. I confirm your obsn of further fading to 14.1 vis recently and will keep an (eye) on it as well. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.
Alan, thankyou for your notification. Looking back 7000d (1997) I see only 1 vis obs below the 15.0 line (around the year 2000). As we've seen with a number of other RCBs, a full blown fade can be 8 mags or so. Perhaps this has never been documented in WX CrA before. I confirm your obsn of further fading to 14.1 vis recently and will keep an (eye) on it as well. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.
Steve