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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2440      2008 Apr 19 19.03UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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NOVA SAGITTARII 2008
K. Nishiyama and F. Kabashima, Japan, report, partly via VSNET, their 
discovery of a possible nova of mag 8.4 on two 30-s unfiltered CCD 
survey frames taken on 2008 Apr. 18.784UT using a 105-mm f/5.6 camera 
lens (limiting mag about 12.6). An unfiltered CCD image taken with a 
0.40-m f/9.8 reflector on Apr. 18.809 yields mag 8.4 and the following 
precise position:
RA 18h 05m 58.88s DEC -27 13' 56.0" (2000)

Nothing is visible at this position on their past survey frames taken on 
Apr. 13.765 (limiting mag 12.2) and 14.805 (limiting mag 12.8) or on the 
Digitised Sky Survey.  A nearby USNO-B1.0 star has I mag 18.3 and 
position end figures 58s.38, 55".9.

Following an appeal from the Central Bureau, S. Dvorak, U.S.A, advises 
that his CCD exposures taken with a 0.25-m Meade LX200 reflector (+ 
ST-9XE camera) on Apr. 19.36 yield mag V = 9.28 and B = 9.20.

In an e-mail received at TAHQ on April 19 from Ernesto Guido and 
Giovanni Sostero of Italy an image has been submitted of the new object 
taken remotely with a 0.25-m f/3.4 reflector near Mayhill,
New Mexico on Apr. 19.39. The measured end figures are:
58.90s, 56.3" and with magnitudes B = 9.84, V = 8.90, and R = 8.30

Guy M Hurst