The best-known prediction for
the 2006 outburst (Pietilä, H. 1998, ApJ, 508, 669) and the
periodic solution predict an outburst in
summer 2006.
No proper coordinated monitoring programme has been organised to observe the outburst, unlike in
1993-1996.
At the 2005 AGM of the amateur “The Astronomer” Group in Basingstoke (England) a chance
conversation with former
British Astronomical Association Variable Star Section (BAA-VSS) Director, Gary Poyner, led
us to set up an amateur
monitoring campaign.