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                       PLANET ANOMALY ALERT
                              2006 #8
                    (issued 9-Jul, 07:00 UT)
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           High magnification in OGLE 2006-BLG-359


Dear Colleagues,

PLANET data collected tonight with the Danish 1.54m telescope at ESO LaSilla
(Chile) indicate that this event is approximately 2.5 magnitudes brighter
than it was 2.5 days ago and over the last few hours has risen at the rate of 
approximately 1.5 mag per day. There are two possible reasons we identify for 
this behaviour. Either a caustic crossing is currently in progress or 
alternatively the lightcurve can be described as a heavily-blended PSPL
event, currently at magnification 60, with a peak magnification Amax = 465
predicted to occur at HJD = 2453926.5 (approximately 17 hours from now).

Further observations are encouraged and we will issue an update to this
alert when we know more. A light curve plot as well as data will soon be 
available on our webpages.

Event:           OGLE 2006-BLG-359
RA (J2000):      18:01:30.83
Dec (J2000):     -28:01:12.1

The baseline I magnitude reported by the OGLE team is 19.3.

PLANET observers:
Canopus 1.0m:	Cyril Pitrou
Danish 1.54m: 	Uffe Jorgensen, Arnaud Cassan
Boyden 1.5m:    Hannes Calitz, Matie Hoffman

For more information:
PLANET:            http://planet.iap.fr
OGLE:		   http://ogle.astrouw.edu.pl

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On behalf of the PLANET/RoboNet team,

Michael Albrow