[vsnet-discovery-nova 11] Possible nova in Mon (GSC 4822.39) Oksanen observations

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Possible nova in Mon (GSC 4822.39) Oksanen observations

    Arto Oksanen (Nyrola Observatory) has provided the following information:

I observed last night the suspect nova in Monoceros. The object was
unfiltered about 9.5 magnitudes  and stayed very constant (+/- 0.01 mag)
both in minute and hour timescales. It is extremly red star.

My astrometry using USNOA2.0 reference net
(using 30 something stars, reciduals 0.4 arc sec):

RA: 07 04 04.85 Decl: -03 50 51.12 (J2000.0)

Photometry: Vt=9.92 Bt-Vt=1.72 (Jan 9, 2002 23 UT)

Reference star GSC 4822:3559 (07 04 09 -03 53 00)
Tycho magnitudes: Bt=10.742, Vt=10.590

I have put one unfiltered frame on our webserver:
http://nyrola.jklsirius.fi/novamon2002.jpg

best regards,

arto

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