Sakurai's Object

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2886m&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2886. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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Sakurai's Object (V4334 Sgr, RA=17h 52m 32s.69 and Decl.=-17° 41' 07''.7 at equinox 2000.0) is the central star of a faint PLANETARY NEBULA which experienced a late helium flash at, presumably, the end of 1994. It was discovered by amateur astronomer Yukio Sakurai in February 1996 as a rapidly brightening object, then at the 11th magnitude. It remained bright during two years, before dimming in m...

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