V4744 Sgr: deep fading! Seiichiro Kiyota (Tsukuba, Japan) reports that V4744 Sgr (the fourth nova in Sgr last year) has experienced a dramatic fading. The nova has been proposed to be an Fe II-class nova caught during the early stage of an outburst (cf. vsnet-alert 7566, 7576). Together with the slow fading and the narrowness of the emission lines observed in November (before the solar conjunction), the nova may have experienced a dust fading as observed in the slow nova V705 Cas. (We should also bear in mind that V4744 Sgr was once reported to show some spectroscopic similarities with V838 Mon, cf. vsnet-alert 7566). CCD magnitude estimates by VSOLJ members object YYYYMMDD(UT) mag code SGRV4744 20030130.865 13.55Ic Kis.VSOLJ Observer's code: Kis: S. Kiyota (Tsukuba, Japan) Regards, Taichi Kato