Thursday 14th of September 2006 | Stephen Kinsella
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The AAVSO has reported that SW UMa (R.A. 08:36:42.74 Decl. +53:28:38.1 (2000)) has recently outburst to 10th magnitude from a normal minimum visual magnitude of 16.8. The last time an outburst for this star was reported was in October 2002 when it was brighter than magnitude 13.5 for 17 days. Previous eruptions took place at shorter intervals… Here is a chart of eruptions over the past 20 years:
AAVSO charts for this cataclysmic variable star can be found at this link:
http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/searchcharts3.pl?name=sw%20uma
The original AAVSO special notice can be found at this link:
http://www.aavso.org/publications/specialnotice/18.shtml
