[vsnet-alert 8608] (fwd) Possible Nova in the SMC (Pearce)

[Taichi Kato]

From: "Andrew & Tracey Pearce" <arpearce at ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Re: Possible nova in the SMC
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:04:03 +0800

Bill and all

I have been able to visually confirm Bill Liller's possible nova in the SMC
as detailed below:

Nova in SMC

Aug. 8.509, 11.7 (A.Pearce, Nedlands, W. Australia);

It appears at the position quoted by Bill and Berto Monard.  I have used
comparison star magnitudes as per Mati Morel's recent chart.

Regards
Andrew Pearce
----- Original Message -----
From: "B Monard" <bmonard at mweb.co.za>
To: "vsnet-alert" <vsnet-alert at ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>; "Sumner
Starrfield" <starrfie at susie.la.asu.edu>; "Patrick Schmeer"
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<rays at webcable.com.br>; "Pearce" <arpearce at ozemail.com.au>; "Mati"
<morel at ozemail.com.au>; "massimo" <massimo at arcetri.astro.it>; "Krautter"
<J.Krautter at lsw.uni-heidelberg.de>; "Kato, T"
<tkato at kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>; "Howard" <bond at stsci.edu>; "Dan Green"
<dgreen at cfa.harvard.edu>; "Duerbeck" <hilmar at uni-muenster.de>; "cvnet"
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Allen" <whallen at xtra.co.nz>; "Abby" <afjones at ts.co.nz>; <aavso at aavso.org>;
"W.Liller" <wliller at compuserve.com>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:56 AM
Subject: RE: Possible nova in the SMC


> Dear novaphili,
>
> There is indeed a bright object at the positon that Bill gave. It is not
> certain if it is a new object.
>
> My observations gave the following magnitudes for midtime UT 2005 Aug
07.84:
>
> Filtered CCD:
> 12.0B (+/- 0.25)
> 11.6V (+/- 0.15)
> 10.8R (+/- 0.15)
>
> The position (2000) derived vs Tycho stars:
>
> 01 14 59.92 -73 25 35.8  (+/- 0.2 arcsec)
>
> Congratulations to Bill!
>
>
> Berto Monard (MLF)
> Bronberg Observatory / CBA Pretoria
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: W.Liller [mailto:wliller at compuserve.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 6:00 PM
> To: aavso at aavso.org; Abby; Bill Allen; Berto; chick; cvnet; Duerbeck;
> Dan Green; Howard; Kato, T; Krautter; massimo; Mati; Pearce; Raquel;
> rypers; Patrick Schmeer; Sumner Starrfield; vsnet-alert
> 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
>