A possible pre-nova detection for ATLAS16crq
ATel #9518; Paul Kuin (MSSL/UCL)
on 21 Sep 2016; 12:21 UT
Credential Certification: Paul Kuin (npkuin@gmail.com)
The optical transient ATLAS16crq (Tonry et al. ATEL #9492) was
identified by Chomiuk et al. (ATEL #9511) as a fst Galactic He/N
nova.
In the recently released Gaia DR1 there is a source at a distance
of the coordinates given by Tonry et al. (ATEL #9492) of 1.2\arcsec
with a Gaia G magnitude G=20.13, six magnitudes fainter than
the discovery magnitude of 14.19.
