[vsnet-alert 16193] Re: Possible nova (mag 6.8) in Delphinus

[walcom77]

Following the posting on the Central Bureau's Transient Object
Confirmation Page about a possible Nova in Del (TOCP Designation: PNV
J20233073+2046041) we performed some follow-up of this object through
a 0.43-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD from MPC Code I89 (Nerpio, Spain) and
through a 0.25-m f/6.3 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD from MPC code C82
(Sorrento, Italy).

On our images taken on August 14.8, 2013 from MPC I89 we can confirm
the presence of an optical counterpart with unfiltered CCD magnitude
6.8 at coordinates:

R.A. = 20 23 30.72, Decl.= +20 46 03.4

(equinox 2000.0; UCAC-3 catalogue reference stars).


On our images taken on August 14.8, 2013 from MPC C82 we can confirm
the presence of an optical counterpart with unfiltered CCD magnitude
6.9 and R-Filtered magnitude 6.1 at coordinates:

R.A. = 20 23 30.68, Decl.= +20 46 03.7

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

For more info:

http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2013/08/possible-bright-nova-in-delphinus.html

Our confirmation image:

http://bit.ly/15FLJaK

An animation showing a comparison between our confirmation image and
the archive POSS2/UKSTU plate (R Filter - 1990):

http://bit.ly/13AVFTy

With kind regards,

Ernesto Guido, Nello Ruocco and Nick Howes
http://remanzacco.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/comets77