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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2596      2009 Nov 09 10.39UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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NOVA SCUTI 2009
Hideo Nishimura, Japan reports on CBET 2008 the discovery of a possible 
magnitude 8 nova on two 10-s CCD frames (limiting magnitude 11.5) taken 
on 2009 Nov. 8.3699 and 8.3700 UT using a Canon EOS 5D camera (+ Minolta 
120-mm f/3.5 lens). The measured position by Nishimura is:
RA 18h 43m 44s DEC -7 37' 01" (2000).  Nishimura relays that nothing is 
visible at this position on two frames taken on 2009 Nov. 7.377 using 
same instrumentation (limiting magnitude 11.5), and there is no star on 
his survey frames taken in 2008.

Nakano has measured mag 8.8 and position end figures 45s.65, 36'41".5 
(uncertainty 2".0) from the image obtained by Nishimua where the 
limiting magnitude was about 12.

An e-mail was received at TAHQ from Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero 
(based in Italy):
Following an appeal from the Central Bureau about a possible nova in 
Scutum, on 2009 November 09.08 we performed some follow-up observations 
of this object through a 0.25-m, f/3,4 reflector + CCD, from GRAS 
Observatory at Mayhill.

We can confirm the presence of an optical counterpart with unfiltered 
CCD magnitude about 8.5 (UCAC-2 Catalogue reference stars) at 
coordinates:

RA 18 43m 45.57s DEC -07 36' 42.0" (2000)

On our blog the confirmation image and an animation using a DSS archive 
plate can be found:

http://bit.ly/4Edrho

or

http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2009/11/nova-scuti-2009.html

Guy M Hurst