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# Please post also to vsnet-campaign-nova, since a substantial fraction of # nova-related people only subscribe to vsnet*nova* lists. Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:13:28 +0200 From: Erwin van Ballegoij <aavso.id.bve@home.nl> Subject: [vsnet-chat 6865] Discovering novae Hi all, What is this fuss about discovering novae all about? It seems to me pretty straightforward. The first one to recognize a new object as a nova and reporting it as such to the IAU, is the discoverer of the nova. Someone who only realizes after the discovery that the object on his prediscovery pictures is a nova, cannot claim to be an independent discoverer. He can only claim that he has prediscovery pictures. This is not unique. There are often pre-discovery pictures of novae. But pre-discovery pictures are relevant, as already indicated by T. Kato. I hope V. Tabur will make his other pre-discovery photo's available to the astronomical community. Yours, Erwin van Ballegoij
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