[vsnet-alert 14610] Possible Nova in Oph - PNV J17395600-2447420

[walcom77]

Following the posting on the Central Bureau's Transient Object
Confirmation Page about a possible Nova in Oph (TOCP Designation:
J17395600-2447420) we performed some follow-up of this object remotely
through the 0.43-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD of ITelescope network (MPC
Code - H06).

On our images taken on May 20.3, 2012 we can confirm the presence of
an optical counterpart with unfiltered CCD magnitude 9.5 at
coordinates:

R.A. = 17 39 57.00, Decl.= -24 47 07.3

(equinox 2000.0; CMC-14 catalogue reference stars).

More info and images on our blog:

http://bit.ly/JHy1ye

Direct links to the animation showing a comparison between our
confirmation image and
the archive POSS2/UKSTU plate (R Filter - 1996):

http://bit.ly/KCYwpB

Our confirmation image:

http://bit.ly/K2huog

Kind regards,

Ernesto Guido, Giovanni Sostero & Nick Howes
http://remanzacco.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/comets77