V4334 Sgr

Alert Notice 221: Fading of 2007+20 FG Sge AND Request to monitor 2138+43 SS Cyg for observations with HST, EUVE, and RXTE AND 1058+38 Markarian 421 in outburst AND Activity of 1814+39 AM Her continues AND 1746-17 -- Sgr is a new planetary-nebula nucleus

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AAVSO ALERT NOTICE 221 (May 9, 1996)

FADING OF 2007+20 FG SAGITTAE

Sakurai's Object

V4334 SGR is well known as "Sakurai's Object". It was discovered as a variable on February 20, 1996 by Yukio Sakurai of Japan while he was looking for comets. (Imagine the numbers of variables discovered this way!) At the time, it was a new 12th magnitude star thought to be a novae. But pretty soon it was realized things were not quite so simple.

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Alert Notice 221: Fading of 2007+20 FG Sge AND Request to monitor 2138+43 SS Cyg for observations with HST, EUVE, and RXTE AND 1058+38 Markarian 421 in outburst AND Activity of 1814+39 AM Her continues AND 1746-17 -- Sgr is a new planetary-nebula nucleus

V4334 Sagittarii

Sakurai's Object