Bright Nova in Sgr
Taken by Ernesto Guido & Nick Howes on March 16, 2015 @
remotely from USA
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Following the posting on the Central Bureau's Transient Object Confirmation Page about a possible bright Nova in Sgr (TOCP Designation: PNV J18365700-2855420) we performed some follow-up of this object remotely through a 0.61-m f/6.5 astrograph + CCD) of iTelescope network (MPC Code U69 - Auberry, California - USA).
On our images taken on March 16.5, 2015 we can confirm the presence of an optical counterpart with R-CCD magnitude 5.9 at coordinates:
R.A. = 18 36 56.85, Decl.= -28 55 40.0 (equinox 2000.0; UCAC-4 catalogue reference stars).
An animation showing a comparison between our confirmation image and
the archive POSS2/UKSTU plate (R Filter - 1996):
http://bit.ly/1EpSCS9
Photographer's website:
http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2015/03/bright-nova-in-sgr-pnv-j18365700-2855420.html
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