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From John Greaves: Ah, new novae, one of my fave tautologies... Anyway, have an url > http://vsnet.projectpluto.com/extras.htm#galactic_novae which explains this > http://vsnet.projectpluto.com/galnovae.zip I poured over a ton of Namelists and IAUCs some time since to get all the post- Duerbeck stuff to generate this list in kind of the same style as Duerbeck (as per the file galnovae.dat therein), though not half as thoroughly due to not having the same sort of access to the literature etc. However, I have attempted some Na/Nb/Nc classifcations where possible (though I had to use T3 to keep it a homogenous list, as that is what Duerbeck used, whilst the present trend/fashion/practice/cool-thing-to-do is to use T2, which makes Nb a less frequent classification likelihood, maybes). Won't confess to it being definitive, however, if only because IAUCs themselves can at times tend towards the apocryphal. After all, the information in them is an evolving thing, and they are not _necessarily_ the place where the final word is published on these objects. The online version is complete to 2002, though me personal version has N Oph 2003, N Sgr 2003 and only needs the GCVS number for N Sct 2003 to be complete (mindst, I should be able to predict that as going to be V475 Sct easy enough ;^) ). Nope, it doesn't contain V838 Mon and the like. It rather abritarily contains some xray novae seen visibly, such as GU Mus, whilst excluding others, coz I can't decide meself half the time on those as to whether they're 'classical Galactic' novae or not. It's got a couple of "old discoveries" too, like the _recently_ discovered 1984 one. Don't know if it'll help, but feel free to pull out any of the post 1987 stuff. It's light on references, coz I'm idle, but an ADS search will mostly fix those, though I will warn you from experience that the internal IAUC self referencing urls aren't always complete, and sometimes the url purportedly leading to the discovery IAUC actually isn't, and remember that improved positions for the novae often crop up as one liners in otherwise non-related, later, IAUCs. I just shoved it together for chartists etc. If you're going to do such a thing as a tabular online source, references become a (tedious) must. Cheers John Greaves Incidentally, re be it classical or not: couldn't understand the prevarication on N Sct 2003. I note also that V838 Mon, due to its nature, has chucked off enough outer atmosphere over time to be a prediscovery IRAS source. Don't see ought like that around the potential, but apparently decried, N Cru 2003, but there ya go. Such is suchness.
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