Re: Possible nova in Oph (Liller) Wouldn't it be the minor planet (14) ? > Hola, Everyone - > > On a pair of Kodak Tech Pan 25 films taken through an orange filter and an > 85mm f/1.4 lens, at UT June 16.6292 and June 16.6306, 2001, I found a > possible nova, magnitude 9.5. On June 12.6, the star was fainter than mag > 11.0. The star's approximate position (2000): R.A. = 17h 11.0m, Dec. -21d > 31'. A Mira variable V1521 Oph is about 4.3' to the southwest, but even if > its position is incorrect in the GCVS, it would seem to be too faint (12.9 > photographic mag) to be the nova suspect. > > Tonight looks hopeful and I will try my best to get a low dispersion CCD > spectrogram. Any info from other observers would be very, very welcome.