Multicolor Photometry of the Most Recent Eruption of the Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a

ATel #6543; A. W. Shafter (SDSU), M. J. Darnley (Liverpool, JMU)
on 5 Oct 2014; 18:33 UT
Credential Certification: Allen W. Shafter (aws@nova.sdsu.edu)

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The remarkable recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a, which has a recurrence time of order 1 year, has just been observed to have its 6th recorded outburst starting on 2014 October 2.903 (ATel #6527, #6532, #6535, #6537, #6540). Here, we report multicolor photometry of this most recent outburst obtained with a Loral 2048 X 2048 CCD imager at the Cassegrain focus of the Mount Laguna Observatory 1.0-m reflector. The observations, which were obtained on the night of 04 October 2014 UT (~1.3 days after discovery of this most recent eruption), resulted in the following magnitudes:

 
 
    UT           Band          Mag 
 
Oct 04.178        B       18.95 +/- 0.04 
Oct 04.157        V       18.78 +/- 0.04 
Oct 04.169        R       18.48 +/- 0.03 
Oct 04.188        I       18.51 +/- 0.04 
 

We thank Andrew M. Shafter (Magnolia Science Academy) for assistance with the observations. This work has been supported in part by NSF grant AST-1009566.