Re: Jim Bedient's variable star

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Re: Jim Bedient's variable star

>   Several days ago, Jim Bedient mentioned his work on a star which 
> appears to be a red, long-period variable.  He looked it up in
> the TASS 'tenxcat' database, and was confused to find that two
> different entries in tenxcat might both correspond to this variable.
> 
>   I think he's right.
> 
>   There are two stars of nearly equal brightness in V-band, only
> 37 arcseconds apart:
> 
>           RA   (2000)    Dec           GSC          USNO 2
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>       19:20:36.50    -03:58:18.8    5138 00446    0825-1541 3260
>       19:20:35.08    -03:57:50.5       --         0825-1541 1768
> 
>   
>   The second, northern star is very red, and close to an IRAS
> infrared source.  It is apparently the true variable star.  

   The object is identified with the following:

USNO0825.15465079 192035.000 -035750.91 (2000.0) 11.7 15.4
192034.1 -035756 (2000.0) IRAS19179-0403 1.628 0.698 0.400L 2.562L 15%
192034.1 -035756 (2000.0) SSC19179-0403 1.628 0.698 0.400L 2.562L
192033.0 -035620 (2000.0) WSV102

   The last entry WSV102 corresponds to a variable star discovered by
Wakuda No. 102.  The coordinates for WSV102 are approximate, but is
very likely identical with the variable mentioned.  Wakuda's discovery
was made photographically.

Regards,
Taichi Kato