Possible Nova in Centaurus
Taken by Ernesto Guido, Martino Nicolini & Nick Howes on December 3, 2013 @
remotely from Siding Spring, AU
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Date Taken: 2013:04:14 22:36:37
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Following the posting on the Central Bureau's Transient Object Confirmation Page about a possible Nova in Cen (TOCP Designation: PNV J13544700-5909080) we performed some follow-up of this object remotely through the 0.50-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD + focal reducer of iTelescope network (MPC Code Q62 - Siding Spring, AU).
On our images taken on December 03.68, 2013 we can confirm the presence of an optical counterpart with unfiltered CCD magnitude ~5.0.
An animation showing a comparison between our confirmation image and the archive POSS2/UKSTU plate (R Filter - 1999):
http://bit.ly/1bfm4IR
Photographer's website:
http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2013/12/possible-bright-nova-in-centaurus.html
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