2005IAUC.8518....1P

Further to IAUC 8515, T. Puckett and E. Briggs report the discovery of a variable object (mag 16.0) on an unfiltered CCD frame taken with the 0.50-m automated supernova patrol telescope on Apr. 20.25 and 21.21 UT. The new object is located at R.A. = 14h54m20s.91, Decl. = +16o24'23".8 (equinox 2000.0), which is 37" west and 184" north of the center of IC 4516, and it was also visible at mag 17.6 on Puckett's images from Apr. 5. Nothing is visible at this location on images taken by Puckett on 2002 Feb. 13 and 2003 Mar. 15 (limiting mag about 20.0), but a faint, starlike object is visible at this location on Palomar Sky Survey plates taken on 1993 Mar. 23 (blue mag 18.6) and 1991 May 16 (red mag 19.4). H. Yamaoka, Kyushu University, reports a confirmation of this object on an unfiltered CCD image taken by K. Itagaki (Teppo- cho, Yamagata, Japan; 0.60-m telescope) at red mag 15.9 on Apr. 21.577, providing position end figures 20s.85, 24".4. Yamaoka adds that this appears to be 3C 306 (possibly a quasar), with the location being very close to a dumbbell-shaped radio source in the NVSS and FIRST catalogues; it also appears to be listed in the USNO-B1.0 catalogue (with position end figures 20s.85, 24".7) as having red mag 19.9.