Las Cumbres Observatory early observation of the 2024 eruption of the recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a
ATel #16944; P. Escudero-Coca, B. Armas-Chinea, F. Dobrindt, G. Fernandez-Rodriguez, A. Garcia Lozano, A. Huertas Ferrer, C. Mendez-Lapido, I. Ortega-Casas, M. Torreiro Martinez, G. Villa (all ULL), S. R. Berlanas, F. Poidevin and I. Perez-Fournon (all IAC and ULL)
on 13 Dec 2024; 14:58 UT
Credential Certification: Ismael Perez-Fournon (ipf@iac.es)
Subjects: Optical, Nova, Transient
Following the discovery of the 2024 eruption of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a by Zhao et al. (ATel #16942), we observed this nova with one of the two Las Cumbres Observatory Global telescope network (LCOGT) 1-m telescopes, equipped with a Sinistro camera and located at the LCOGT node at Siding Spring Observatory (Australia). The observation consisted of a single 120-sec exposure in the SDSS r' filter and was carried out at an airmass of 3.73. The nova eruption is detected on 2024 December 13.4307 UTC at a magnitude r' = 18.61 +/- 0.30, calibrated against PanSTARRS DR1 and
not corrected for Galactic extinction.
This work makes use of observations from the Las Cumbres Observatory global telescope network and
is part of a course on Astrophysical Techniques of the Master in Astrophysics of the Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (ULL-ASTRO-MASTER).
