Las Cumbres Observatory follow-up photometry of the M33 nova AT 2024abqt
ATel #16918; A. Garcia Lozano, B. Armas-Chinea, F. Dobrindt, P. Escudero-Coca, G. Fernandez-Rodriguez, A. Huertas Ferrer, C. Mendez-Lapido, I. Ortega-Casas, M. Torreiro Martinez, G. Villa (all ULL), S. R. Berlanas (IAC and ULL), and I. Perez-Fournon (IAC and ULL)
on 23 Nov 2024; 13:48 UT
Credential Certification: Ismael Perez-Fournon (ipf@iac.es)
Subjects: Optical, Nova, Transient
Here we report follow-up photometry of the M33 nova AT 2024abqt, that was discovered by ATLAS on 2024-11-21 09:48:01 UT at a magnitude orange-ATLAS = 16.093 +/- 0.022 (Tonry et al. TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 233059). There was no detection by ATLAS on 2024-11-20 10:53:45 UT with a limiting magnitude orange-ATLAS = 19.19. AT 2024abqt has been classified as a nova in M33 by Claudio Balcon (TNS Classification Report No. 18750).
We observed M33 with one of the two Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope network (LCOGT) 40-cm telescopes located at the LCOGT node at Teide Observatory (Tenerife, Spain). The observation reported here consisted of a single exposure in the SDSS g' filter of 60 sec obtained on 2024-11-22 20:27:34 UT. We measure a magnitude g' = 16.91 +/- 0.05 calibrated against Pan-STARRS1 DR2, not corrected for Milky Way extinction.
Multi-wavelength follow up is encouraged.
These results are based on observations made with the Las Cumbres Observatory education network telescopes that were upgraded through generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and are part of a course on Astrophysical Techniques of the Master in Astrophysics of the Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (LCOGT observing programme IAC2024B-010, ULL-ASTRO-MASTER).
ULL-ASTRO-MASTER LCOGT 40-cm imaging of Nova AT 2024abqt in M33
