Dear Colleagues, I've been looking at this field and yes, there is a quite bright object there, no reported elsewhere so bright. More details will follow soon. Regards, Gianluca Makoto Uemura wrote: > > We, vsnet administrator team, have received the following mail > from D. Favre. > > ------- Forwarded Message > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:54:59 +0100 > From: Didier Favre <favre.didier@free.fr> > To: vsnet-adm@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp > Subject: Possible Nova Star in Taurus photographed > > At yesterday tonight i could take a photo of a star in the Hyades. A > possible Nova > at the coordinates R.A : 04h21mn11,8s Decl : 16 deg 26 mn 12s. > The star his mentionned by the Real Sky software but it's brighter now. > This observation was confirm by a friend in Switzerland. > Is anybody could have a look on this and confirm ? > Best regards > > ------- End of Forwarded Message -- *********************************************************************** * Gianluca Masi "Two things fill the soul * * Via Madonna de Loco, 47 with awe and reverence [...]: * * 03023 Ceccano (FR) the starry sky above me and * * ITALY the moral law within me" * * e-mail: gianmasi@fr.flashnet.it * * web: http://vsnet.eurolink.it/comets/ I. Kant * * Minor Planet Center Obs. Code: 470 - Ceccano * * Center for Backyard Astrophysics - Italy * * VSNET Collaboration Team member * ***********************************************************************