Currently undergoing a final thermal helium pulse Sakurai's Object has already reached the AGB and is warming up again. We have obtained a superb set of medium resolution spectra of the object (frequency every 2 weeks since discovery), showing the thermal evolution very clearly. Monitoring is continuing.
RA: 17 52 32.69 DEC: -16 41 07.7 (J2000) V: 11.2 (and still brightening) See also: Duerbeck & Beneti 1996, ApJ, 468, L111
1996.