Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:14:29 +1000 From: Vello Tabur <vello@pcug.org.au> Subject: Re: [vsnet-chat 6848] Re: (fwd) Re: [vsnet-campaign-nova 1424] Re: (fwd) nova list update Taichi Kato wrote: > Oh, I am very sorry!! I confused the case of Vello Tabur in >V2573 Oph (this observation has been elsewhere sometimes referred >to as "independent discovery of this nova"). I simply confused >with this with yours probably because I was not directly aware of >your discovery report on V4745 Sgr. Next time, we would be >extremely happy to hear from you your next discovery of a nova! > > > > Dear Dr. Kato, Just to set the record straight about N Oph 2003 (= V2573 Oph), - I was the first person to see this object (in fact 4 weeks before Takao reported it), and - I immediately recognized it as an undiscovered variable star and added it to my catalog, but - I did NOT report it as a possible nova. Based on the evidence available to me, I was not sufficiently convinced that it was an eruptive variable, so I made a conscious decision not to report it. Although you may argue that I didn't discover *Nova* Oph 2003 (and I would agree), I would respectfully submit that I did discover the *variable* star V2573 Oph. As they are the one and the same, it is a matter of semantics and I leave it to the philosophers amongst you to debate what to call such an unusual situation. At any rate, IAUC 8166 called it an independent discovery. Best Regards, -- Vello Tabur Comet Hunting Techniques http://vsnet.tip.net.au/~vello R&D, SearchSoftwareAmerica http://vsnet.searchsoftware.com
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