From afamstar@libero.it Wed Nov 1 13:25 JST 2000 Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 04:25:15 +0000 From: afamstar <afamstar@libero.it> X-Accept-Language: it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: redazione@coelum.com, yamaoka@rcsvr.rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp, tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp, dbishop@vhdl.org, afamstar@libero.it Subject: Sent to CBAT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 1916 Hi all, I just sent this comment to the people at CBAT. Regards, Giovanni Sostero (Remanzacco Observatory) ***************************************************************** Oggetto: A note about the possible Nova in M31 (NGC224) Data: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 04:20:17 +0000 Da: afamstar <afamstar@libero.it> Sirs, following our alert note about a possible Nova in M31 (NGC224) at coordinates R.A. = 00h42m 57.2s, Decl. = +41d07'18" (Equinox 2000.0) we would like to inform you that we received the following note from Fred Ewalt (Greyrocks Observatory, East Killingly, Northeastern Connecticut, USA) via D. Bishop: "In reference to the request from Giovanni Sostero (Remanzacco Observatory) for any recent images for the central region of M-31, please be advised that I imaged this area on 09/05/2000 and again on 10/24/2000. I was not specifically looking for NOVAs, but building a multi-frame mosiac. I cannot find any evidence of an object at 00h42m 57.2s +41d07'18" in the image taken 09/05/2000 but there is a "possible" stellar object dimmer than magnitude 18 at this position in the 10/24/2000 image. The frames were taken through my LX200 25cm (10") S/C f/6.3 scope operating at f/4, for a FOV of 35.5' X 35.5'. at a resolution of 4.16 arcseconds per pixel. My observatory's position is LA 41-51N, LO 71-48W." We would also notice that a SIMBAD database interrogation has not given any entry within 15 arcsec of the given position. The nearest variable star known has coordinates: R.A. = 00h42m54.2s, Decl. = +41d07'40" (equinox 2000.0). The GCVS (4th Edition-Kholopov+,1988) hasn't any entry within 30 arcsec of the given position. We are trying to alert some professional astronomers equipped with suitable instrumentation in order to collect a spectra of this object. Best regards, Giovanni Sostero *****************************************************************