Dear all, Nearest star can be seen on DSS image from Paulo's position 175959.633, -305320.52 [vsnet-discovery-nova 49] is a USNO-A2.0/GSC-2.2 catalogued star: USNO-A2.0 175959.472 -305318.71 r=16.9 b=19.4 GSC2.2 175959.472 -305318.39 F=15.96 Note that this star somewhat elongated to SE, which indicate that it is a close (separation \sim 1 arcsec) double star. Sincerely Yours, Hitoshi Yamaoka, Kyushu Univ., Japan yamaoka@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp