[vsnet-alert 7529] Re: Keith Geary's query object? near Nova Sgr 2002 (No. 3)

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

Dear Colleagues,
no known minor planets brighter than V= 15.0 were within 45' from the
reported position on Aug. 31.0, 2002. As a single image is difficult to
judge, I would like to ask to Keith if he has any other image of that
area, grabbed the same night. The "object", looking at the picture,
appears white/blueish. While its shape, when compared to that of real
stars, seems a bit different (the latter being a bit elongated along the
vertical direction, but note that the image is of *poor* quality, at
least in its scanned version!), it is definitely worth to check the
field. 

Kind regards,
Gianluca



Taichi Kato wrote:
> 
> Keith Geary's query object? near Nova Sgr 2002 (No. 3)
> 
>    We have received the following query from Keith Geary
> (keithgear@eircom.net).
> 
>    The image has been posted at:
> 
> http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/Novae/nova_sgr02-3/gearyquery.jpg
> 
>    Could someone check the reality?
> 
> From: "Keith Geary" <keithgear@eircom.net>
> Subject: Another possible nova in sagittarius - 2002 no.4??
> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:46:51 +0100
> 
> Hello All, i am writing to you for some help. I had sent a pre-discovery
> image of nova sgr 2002 no.3 (haseda's nova) this evening to VSNET, when
> on closer examination of
> the image showed up yet another, to the best of my knowledge,
> unidentified object very near the position of this nova. The object is
> stellar in appearance, and photographically (slr 35mm) apprears at about
> magnitude 8. I have checked with redshift 4 software, and retrieved an
> ESO digital sky survey image for coordinates
> 18h55m14s  -21*50'00"s. The trouble is that this image was taken on the
> night of August 30th 2002 at 2300 hrs UT.
> 
> Do any of you have an image (CCD) or otherwise of this area on that
> particular night?? The coordinates given are rough +/-30 arcminutes, but
> can you examine the image
> and see what you think. I know that it cannot be spectroscopically
> examined now, but another image to confirm that this object did actually
> appear would be great. I do not believe it is a variable star, though it
> is possible that it could have been a minor planet. The discovery from
> Tanaka sent to VSNET does not show this object on the night of
> Sept.19th. I would grateful to you all if we could tie this one up.
> 
> Thank you all, Best Regards, Keith Geary, Ireland
> 6*46'59"W +53*54"N

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