Very close to last weeks object, we find Gaia17afn. Another typical young stellar object. It is also known by the name V555Ori. The last time we looked this source was in week 296. We saw that towards the end of its last visibility period, the object had slightly brightened.
In the plot above we have added then first weeks of data in the R and I-band filter for the new visibility period. We can see that the source has dimmed by about one magnitude in the meantime. It also is now showing slightly less variations on short timescales. In other words the data look less noisy. But it is now almost 2mag fainter than 2yr ago. So, presumably it will brighten back at some stage – lets keep an eye on it!
Happy Christmas Everyone!