V482 Cygni may be fading

[bnscott13]

Those R Coronae Borealis-type variable fans out there might be interested to know that it looks like V482 Cygni may be starting a decline. My observations have shown it on a gradual but steady fade for the past two weeks; I haven’t been able to observe it for the past few days because of the weather but I see today that someone else reported an observation from last night and it is still dimming (and possibly dimming more steeply, though that’s hard to say for sure yet). Here are the last two weeks of TG and V observations:

• Brian

[pox]

I made it 11.1 tonight (16th Jul, although as I write it’s actually now the 17th!)

[bnscott13]

Looks like it was just a minor dip and rebound, not a real fade - here is the latest light curve. The magnitude scale got cut off, but the magnitude axis in this image goes from 11.10 to 10.65:

[pox]

hey but it’s still activity! Not all fades have to be huge. I believe Z UMi recently went through a minor fade too.