[vsnet-alert 8601] (fwd) Possible Nova in the SMC (Liller)

[Taichi Kato]

Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 11:59:52 -0400
From: "W.Liller" <wliller at compuserve.com>
Subject: Possible nova in the SMC

Hola everyone -

There is a possible nova at (2000) 1h 15.0m, - 73d 26'.  This I found on
two films taken on August 6.388 UT using a 0.2m Schmidt camera plus Kodak
TP film, no filter.  Its magnitude is approximately 10.4. Nothing brighter
than 13th magnitude appears at this position on earlier photographs, the
most recent taken on March 23, 2005.  The candidate is near two open
clusters; the field is, to say the least, crowded.

All the best to all,   Bill Liller