[vsnet-alert 5394] Possible Nova In Taurus

[Gianluca Masi <gianmasi@fr.flashnet.it>]

Dear Colleagues,
after the message by Didier Favre, forwarded by M. Uemura to the VSNET, I used the
telescope at Bellatrix Observatory to check the field. Several CCD frames were grabbed,
with exposure times ranging between 15 and 60 seconds, All them show a quite bright
object, just were Didier indicates, and it is not reported so bright elsewhere in
astronomical reference publications (as DSS). I give astrometry and photometry for this
object:

2000 Nov  27.960  R.A: 04h 21m 12.13s Decl: +16d26'16.7"

Residulas: 0.1" on both axes.

Magnitude:   10.2 R 

These measurements are based on eight reference stars from USNO A2.0. By the way: this
catalogue has no star at that position, even if the star is reported on the DSS, but
_definitely_ fainter (several magnitudes)!


I posted the frame used for the measurements above at
http://vsnet.eurolink.it/comets/possiblenova.jpg  
North is up, east on the left; image 19.3x13.9 arcminutes wide; 30seconds CCD exposure.


So, this probable nova deserves a quite close control by observer.

Regards,
Gianluca Masi

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