[vsnet-alert 23669] ASASSN-19aad (= TCP J18395972-1025415): probable nova (9.4 mag) in Scutum

Tue Oct 29 21:34:53 JST 2019

ASASSN-19aad (= AT 2019tpb, TCP J18395972-1025415)

Discovery details:
R.A. 18h39m59.70s, Decl. -10°25'41.5" (J2000.0, K. Itagaki's follow-up obs.)
2019 October 29.0578 UT, gmag. 11.56 (ASAS-SN)
Discoverer: All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN)

Links:
https://wis-tns.weizmann.ac.il/object/2019tpb
http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/followups/J18395972-1025415.html
https://asas-sn.osu.edu/light_curves/f4d4863d-ca2a-4238-9adb-04bdd551bac9
http://k-itagaki.jp/images/PN-sct.jpg

Looks like a (reddened) nova that erupted on 2019 October 28.
Spectroscopy and multiband-photometry (also precise astrometry)
are urgently required.

Clear skies,
Patrick