[vsnet-alert 685] Southern novae: finding charts & current mags

[Fred Ringwald <ringwald@astro.psu.edu>]

Dear vsnet,

Does anyone have detailed finding charts, or better, current magnitudes
(in V or better, H alpha), for the following novae?  I'd like to include
them in my upcoming Hubble Space Telescope search for nova shells, but
being southern, there is little on them in SIMBAD, or on vsnet. 

I need to know how bright they are now: have they gone into quiescence, or
are they still in decline?  HST time is far too valuable to risk
saturating the CCD.  Jon Kemp has seven more nights left on Cerro Tololo,
but he has a single-channel detector and so needs more than just precise
coordinates, since novae are often in crowded fields (which is why SkyView
may or may not help, when they get faint): 

Nova Cen 1995  
Coord 1950.0 = 12 59 27.88  -59 55 33.1 
Coord 2000.0 = 13 02 32.07  -60 11 39.8

Nova Cir 1995  
Coord 1950.0 = 14 40 51.26  -63 41 16.1 
Coord 2000.0 = 14 44 53.48  -63 53 55.6

Nova Lup 1993  
Coord 1950.0 = 14 28.4      -50 57 
Coord 2000.0 = 14 31.8

V351 Pup (1991)
Coord 1950.0 = 08 09 44.11  -34 58 29.2 
Coord 2000.0 = 08 11 38.35  -35 07 30.1

V868 Cen (1991)
Coord 1950.0 = 13 46 37.13  -62 54 00.0 
Coord 2000.0 = 13 50 10.60  -63 08 52.0


The following two are probably inaccessible this time of year, but I still
could use detailed finding charts or current magnitudes: 

Nova Sgr 1993  
Coord 1950.0 = 18 09 38.40  -29 29 54.0 
Coord 2000.0 = 18 12 49.82  -29 29 04.

V992 Sco (1992)
Coord 1950.0 = 17 03 42.68  -43 11 26.3 
Coord 2000.0 = 17 07 17.38  -43 15 22.3


Thanks, and please keep up the excellent work on the northern ones, your
observations have made my job a lot easier,

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