March 27, 2008
Rod Stubbings (Tetoora Road, Victoria, Australia) reports that the intermediate polar EF Eri is in outburst for the first time since 2006. He reports that EF Eri was at a visual magnitude of 14.7 on 2008 March 27.412 UT (JD 2454552.912). Visual and CCD observations of this object are encouraged, including fainter-than estimates. EF Eri is at RA = 03:14:13.20 , Dec = -22:35:43.0 (J2000). Charts for EF Eri are available through VSP at the following URL: http://www.aavso.org/observing/charts/vsp/index.html?pickname=EF%20Eri Recent observations are available here: http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/newql.pl?name=EF%20Eri&output=html Please report all observations to the AAVSO as "EF ERI" (AAVSO 0309-22). This Special Notice was prepared by Dr. Matthew Templeton. --------------------------------------------------- SUBMIT OBSERVATIONS TO THE AAVSO Information on submitting observations to the AAVSO may be found at: http://www.aavso.org/observing/submit/ SPECIAL NOTICE ARCHIVE AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION A Special Notice archive is available at the following URL: http://www.aavso.org/publications/specialnotice/ Subscribing and Unsubscribing may be done at the following URL: http://www.aavso.org/publications/email/