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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2429      2008 Mar 09 15.44UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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NOVA CYGNI 2008
Hiroshi Kaneda, Japan, reports discovery of an apparent nova (mag 8.2 
+/- 0.3) on nine 4-s unfiltered CCD frames (limiting mag 10.7) taken on 
2008 Mar. 7.801 UT using a digital camera (+ 105-mm f/2.5 telephoto 
lens).

The position of the variable is:
RA 19h 58m 33.4s DEC +29 52' 04" (2000).

The discoverer notes that nothing is visible at this position on his 
patrol frames taken of 2007 Oct. 5, (limiting mag 10.5), 2008 Jan. 1 
(limiting mag 10.7), and Feb. 18 (limiting mag 10.5); also, nothing is 
present on the Digitised Sky Survey within 20" of this position to mag 
13.0.

Following posting of the above report on the Central Bureau's
unconfirmed-objects webpage, numerous additional apparent claims of 
independent discovery have been sent to CBAT. The first was from 
Zhang-wei Jin and Xing Gao, using a Canon EOS 350D camera (+ 
7-cm-aperture, 200-mm-f.l. f/2.8 telephoto lens) at Xingming 
Observatory, Mt. Nanshan, China, as part of their nova survey. Images 
taken around Mar. 7.881 UT, show the object at mag 8.1.

Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England e-mailed the editor on March 8 in 
response to the CBAT webpage, confirming that he had recorded the new 
object at:
RA 19 58 33.38 DEC +29 52 06.5 (2000)
Magnitude 7.8V on JD 2454533.95204

Martin Mobberley advises that he imaged the possible nova using a 
telescope in New Mexico on 2008 Mar 9.480UT.
He has posted a 1 degree wide image of the new nova Cyg field at the top 
of his nova page: http://uk.geocities.com/martinmobberley/Nova.html

The image itself can be found by clicking on the link below:
http://uk.geocities.com/martin.mobberley@btinternet.com/
ncyg2008_20080309_mpm.jpg

Guy M Hurst