Continued optical brightening of [HB89] 0716+714 blazar

ATel #6953; O. I. Spiridonova, V. V. Vlasyuk, A. S. Moskvitin (SAO RAS), V. S. Bychkova (Astro Space Center RAS)
on 19 Jan 2015; 17:07 UT
Credential Certification: Barsukova E.A. (bars@sao.ru)

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The blazar [HB89] 0716+714 was monitored with the 1-meter telescope Zeiss-1000 (SAO RAS, Russia) in BVRc bands. The last month of our observations shows a strong brightening of the object in the order of 2 magnitudes. This flare was also reported by Carrasco et al., ATel #6902; Arkharov et al. (ATel #6942); Bachev, Spasov & Boeva, ATel #6944. According to our photometry the object shows intranight variability of up to 0.04 mag during each set. The averaged magnitudes are as follows. The usual error of magnitude in a single image is about 0.01.

Date	B	V	R
2014 Dec. 20.0	14.68	14.18	13.73
2014 Dec. 21.0	14.37	13.87	13.43
2014 Dec. 21.95	14.40	13.89	13.44
2015 Jan. 17.9	12.91	12.45	12.01
2014 Jan. 18.9	12.54	12.06	11.65