Hola Everyone - The new nova is getting brighter... Last night I measured it in the V band: Dec 4.071 11.96 +/- 0.06 It seems that N LMC '05 belongs to Duerbeck's Group II novae, or type Bb. More quasi-maxima may follow. (See Duerbeck, H.W. in PASP 93, 165, 1981.) All the best, Bill Liller