[vsnet-chat 384] Re: [vsnet-alert 981] possible nova in Sco

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

I wrote

   >By assuming the optical maximum at the epoch of Liller's discovery,
   >your observation suggest t3 of 3 - 4 days (!), which probably

Fraser Farrell wrote

> Or eclipses???

   Probably no, since the nova ejecta may be too thick at this moment.
V838 Her (Nova Her 1991) was about 5 mag below the optical maximum when
the first eclipse was caught.

> Liller's previous discovery (Nova Cru 1996) faded rapidly too.  We must
> encourage Bill to find us some slower novae, so that we _all_ get a
> chance to see them... <g>

   I suppose novae in the direction of the Galactic center tend to fade
more rapidly than higher galactic lattitude novae.  Isn't this the very
region under surveillance by Liller?

> The VSNET GIF image CHT3.GIF is a wide-field CCD picture?  When was this
> taken?  The pixel at (322,202) corresponds to the nova's position, and
> it seems to confirm the rapid fade.  I identify the brighter pixels
> to the lower left (315,204) as a trio of GSC stars.

   Sorry, the chart has been drawn from GSC.  The pixel seeming a nova
is a mark I added to indicate the position.

Regards,
Taichi Kato (also leaving to Jackson tomorrow)

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