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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2021      2004 Aug 06 16.20UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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NOVA SCORPII 2004 No. 2
Hitoshi Yamaoka, Japan, reports that Akira Takao, Japan, has discovered 
a possible magnitude 7.4 nova on unfiltered CCD images taken with a 
120-mm telephoto lens on 2004 Aug.3.583UT.  It is located at RA 17h 29m 
18s, DEC -31 46.0' (2000).

It was not recorded on earlier exposures:
2004 July 18.637,[11.9; 30.569, [10.8).
An ASAS-3 image taken on Aug. 2.071 also shows this new object at V = 
9.9.

K. Itagaki has obtained a precise position from a CCD image of August 
5.475UT:
RA 17h 29m 18.81s DEC -31 46' 01.5" (2000).

The object may be identical with the location of a very red catalogued 
star whose USNO-A2.0 position end figures are
18.818s, 01.68" of blue magnitude 19.7, red 17.4.

A low-resolution spectrum of the new object, taken by M. Fujii, Japan, 
on Aug.5.49, suggests that the object is a classical
nova.

Laszlo Kiss, Sydney, Australia, has reported seeing the object on August 
6.465UT at 9.8. He comments that it is very red as seen in an 8-inch 
Dobsonian. (VSNET).

Guy M Hurst