COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
          INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                        Number 3393

                                             Konkoly Observatory
                                             Budapest
                                             3 November 1989

                                             HU ISSN 0374 - 0676


                NEW BRIGHTENING OF V1143 Ori


The fuor-like object V1143 Ori found by Sugano (Marsden, 1983) and
Natsvlishvili (Natsvlishvili, 1984) had several brightenings during 1982 - 1986
(Parsamian and Gasparian, 1987; Mirzoyan et al., 1988; Gasparian et al., 1987).
The photographic magnitude of V1143 Ori at minimum is about 18m.

A new brightening of V1143 Ori (m_pg=15.6) was detected in October 11, 1989.
The observations were carried out on the 21" Schmidt telescope of Byurakan
observatory.


K.G. GASPARIAN
L.G. HAKHVERDIAN
Byurakan Observatory
Armenia, USSR

References:

Gasparian, K.G., Oganian, G.B., Parsamian, E.S., 1987, 
   Inf. Bull. Var. Stars, No. 3024.
Marsden, B.G., 1983, IAU Circ., No. 3763. [BIBCODE 1983IAUC.3763....2K ]
Mirzoyan, L.V., Melikian, N.D., Natsvlishvili R.Sh., 1988, Astrofizika, 28,
   540. [BIBCODE 1988Afz....28..540M ]
Natsvlishvili, R.Sh., 1984, Inf. Bull. Var. Stars No. 2565.
Parsamian, E.S., Gasparian, K.G., 1987, Astrofizika, 27, 447. [BIBCODE 1987Afz....27..447P ]