------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2163 2005 Oct 16 14.34UT Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise, Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074 INTERNET: GUY@TAHQ.DEMON.CO.UK GMH at AST.STAR.RL.AC.UK WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.theastronomer.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- POSSIBLE NOVA IN SCUTUM (=ASAS 183843-1216.3) Grzegorz Pojmanski, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory reports via vsnet-alert 8718 that the ASAS3V instrument of The All Sky Automated Survey (180mm f/2.8 telephoto lens, diameter 65mm + CCD + Johnson V filter, 3 minute exposures, pixel size 14.8 arcsec, rms astrometric accuracy - 4 arcsec) has detected a possible nova in Scutum at: RA 18h 38m 43s DEC -12 16.3' (2000) No object is visible at this position on DSS images. USNO_B1 lists several faint and very red objects around this position: id| RA| DEC| B1| R1| B2| R2| I2| 0777-0611924 18:38:42.4147 -12:16:13.640 0.00 0.00 0.00 19.91 19.30 0777-0611945 18:38:42.7227 -12:16:17.040 0.00 0.00 0.00 19.51 19.36 0777-0611980 18:38:43.1567 -12:16:16.190 0.00 20.00 0.0 20.21 19.41 0777-0611989 18:38:43.3007 -12:16:22.140 0.00 19.71 0.0 18.91 19.00 0777-0612009 18:38:43.5960 -12:16:21.790 0.00 19.91 0.0 19.94 18.86 0777-0612017 18:38:43.6400 -12:16:25.190 0.00 20.28 0.0 19.94 19.35 Observations: DATE UT HJD V 07/10/2005 01:19:23 (Oct 07.055) 2453650.5551 invisible (V>14) 11/10/2005 00:36:29 (Oct 11.026) 2453654.5250 12.013 13/10/2005 01:34:22 (Oct 13.066) 2453656.5650 10.419 Light curve and images can be found on http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/cgi-asas/asas_disc/183843-1216.3,3647 H. Yamaoka, Kyushu University, reports the independent discovery of this apparent nova at mag 10.6 by Katsumi Haseda, Japan, with a 400-mm, f/4 telephoto lens + T-Max 400 film on photographs taken on 2005 Oct. 13.419 and 13.420, the position for the nova given as: RA 18h 38m 44s, DEC -12 16' 25" (2000). Guy M Hurst