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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2304      2007 Jan 30 14.57UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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V1065 CENTAURI (= NOVA CENTAURI 2007)
Further to the note on TA E-Circular 2302 of a possible nova found in 
Centaurus by Bill Liller, N. N. Samus, Institute of Astronomy, Russian 
Academy of Sciences, advises that the object has been designated V1065 
Centauri.

Bill Liller adds that he has received images taken by two amateur 
astronomers, Gerardo Addiego and Washington Fonseca in Uruguay at Jan. 
21.035UT and Jan.21.042UT.  Both clearly show the nova pre-discovery. 
Bill estimates its V magnitude then to be 7.6 +/- 0.2. Addiego's image 
is in colour and shows that the nova had an "off-white" colour, 
certainly bluer than B-V = +1.46, the colour of GSC 8642 768, a star 
nearby with V = 7.47.

B. Heathcote (Australia) reports on IAUC 8800 the following precise 
position from CCD images obtained on Jan. 25.708:
RA 11h 43m 10.33s DEC -58 04' 04.3" (2000), with magnitudes B = 9.08 and 
V = 8.59.

F. M. Walter, Stony Brook University, writes on IAUC 8800 that red and 
blue spectra, obtained on Jan. 26.3 UT with the SMARTS 1.5-m telescope 
at Cerro Tololo, shows the new variable to be a classical nova near 
maximum.

COMET C/2006 P1 (McNAUGHT)
K. Battams, Interferometrics, Inc., and Naval Research Laboratory,
reports on IAUC 8793 that images of comet C/2006 P1 obtained on Jan. 11 
with the SECCHI/HI-1B instrument on the NASA STEREO-B (Behind) 
spacecraft are available at the following website URL: 
http://ares.nrl.navy.mil/sungrazer/index.php?p=latest_news
The images show a curved, striated dust tail some 7 degrees long, the 
bright coma being heavily saturated due to its brightness.

SUPERNOVA 2007D IN UGC 2653
Discovery by T. Puckett and T. Orff of a possible supernova (IAUC 8794):
SN      2006 UT      R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.    Mag.     Offset
2007D   Jan. 09.02  03 18 38.71  +37 36 26.4  18.2    4.9"E,  2.8"S

SUPERNOVA 2007E IN NGC 921
Discovery by LOSS of a possible supernova (IAUC 8794):
SN      2006 UT      R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.    Mag.     Offset
2007E   Jan. 10.17  02 26 34.41  -15 50 36.5  15.9   15.7"E, 14.2"N

SUPERNOVA 2007F IN UGC 8162
Discovery by T. Puckett and R. Gagliano of a possible supernova (IAUC 
8794):
SN      2006 UT      R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.    Mag.     Offset
2007F   Jan. 11.40  13 03 15.08  +50 37 07.7  17.3   10.1"W,  7.4"S

Guy M Hurst