> My name is Cristovao Jacques and I'm the Scientific Director of the Centro > de Estudos Astronomicos de Minas Gerais, an Astronomy Club here in Brazil . > Our main activity is the astrometry follow-up of Neo's and comets and > Supernovae search. > Last month, my colleague Tasso Napoleao and I , imaged the region around > Nova Velorum. > After that, we noticed a very strange object that was in a similar shape > with a planetary nebulae. After a careful search in the Simbad site, the > only match we found was an object that had the same coordinates of the > USNO catalogue star : USNO-A2.0 0300-10475620 with > Bmag - 19.3 and Rmag 17.2 . > > The coordinates of this object are : > > RA : 10 44 40 > Dec : -52 36 30.5 > Epoch (2000.0) The object is probably identical with as ASAS variable star, ASAS_J104440-5236.5. The mean magnitude is I=12.12, which shows that the object is a very red one. 104439.9 -523629 (2000.0) ASAS_J104440-5236.5 12.12I (0.48) The type of variability is unknown, but the red color suggest some sort of red variable. Such an object masy be surrounded by a nebulocity. I forward your query to Yamaoka-san and VSNET for further examination. Regards, Taichi Kato