Those of you who might be thinking about observing V445 Pup (Nova Pup 2000) during its current obscuration event (IAUC 7730) should be aware that there is a faint companion about 4arcsec SE of the position for V445 Pup. This object is about V=19.7, pretty faint, but V445 Pup itself is fainter than this and you might give a false detection. A good comparison set of images is given at http://vela.as.arizona.edu/~rmw/v445pup.html A bright BVRI field photometry file is given at http://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/aah/sequence/v445pup.dat and a visual sequence (of little use until the star recovers!): http://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/aah/sequence/sumner/v445pup.seq Arne