Independent Discovery of a Probable Nova in M31
ATel #9431; K. Hornoch (Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov, Czech Republic), H. Kucakova (Astronomical Institute, Charles U., Prague, Czech Republic)
on 30 Aug 2016; 21:39 UT
Credential Certification: Martin Henze (henze@ice.cat)
Subjects: Optical, Nova, Transient
Referred to by ATel #: 9443
We report the independent discovery of a probable nova in M31 on a co-added 720-s
R-band CCD frame taken on 2016 Aug. 30.820 UT with the 0.65-m telescope at Ondrejov.
The new object is also visible on a prediscovery image taken on Aug. 29.920 UT
with the same instrumentation under poor seeing.
The object first announced and designated PNV J00435329+4126216 by K. Nishiyama
and F. Kabashima (see
here)
is located at R.A. = 0h43m53s.45, Decl. = +41o26'22".0 (equinox 2000.0), which
is 778.3" east and 613.5" north of the center of M31 (see link to discovery image
below).
The following magnitudes were obtained using the 0.65-m telescope at Ondrejov:
2016 Aug. 27.816 UT, [20.5 (R-band); 29.920, 19.3 ± 0.3 (R-band, prediscovery);
30.820, 18.4 ± 0.15 (R-band); 30.829, 18.3 ± 0.2 (I-band).
We thank J. Vrastil for getting images on Aug. 27.816 UT.
Discovery
image
