Dear Friends,

On Sunday, Oct. 3 there was ATel #14950 posted about

Palomar Gattini-IR NIR detection and classification of a young, highly reddened Galactic classical nova PGIR21git / AT2021aadi / Gaia21ejq

PGIR21git was first detected in the Gattini data processing pipeline on UT 2021-09-19 at a J magnitude of 12.83 +/- 0.27 AB mag, at J2000 coordinates of

RA 18:00:44.85 Dec -21:39:41.46

https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=14950

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I managed to make 2x120s I, R and V-band images remotely with a 0.51m http://iTelescope.net reflector at Siding Spring, AU on October 4.4128UT. The nova was still quite bright on the I-band images.

https://twitter.com/fidusz/status/1445134503463329798

PGIR21git 2021 10 04.4148 13.997I (0.016) FID PGIR21git 2021 10 04.4206 16.490R (0.013) FID PGIR21git 2021 10 04.4206 <18.0V FID

the photometry is average of 2x120s I, R-band and V-band images, respectively.

Indeed a highly reddened nova.

Follow-up photometry with I and R-band filters is recommended.

Clear skies,

Robert Fidrich HAA/VSS