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Re: 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) Kiyota-san just reported that the object was much fainter than the above estimate (giving an upper limit of Ic = 13.5). The object looked almost undetectable on Kiyota-san's image. The fading seems to be even deeper than the description mentioned above. Regards, Taichi Kato
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