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ATEL #884 ATEL #884

Title: Possible Nova in M31
Author: V. Burwitz (Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik,
MPE), W. Pietsch (MPE), A. Stefanescu (MPE), F. Schrey (MPE), D.
Hatzidimitriou (Department of Astrophysics, University of Crete, UOC),
P. Reig (UOC), G. Papamastorakis (UOC)
Queries: burwitz@mpe.mpg.de
Posted: 17 Sep 2006; 14:01 UT
Subjects: Optical, Novae

We report the discovery of a possible nova in M31 on an R filter CCD
image (2006 September 17.03741, 17.1 mag) obtained at the 1.3m Ritchey
Chretien f/7.5 Telescope at Skinakas Observatory, Crete, Greece using
the Roper CCD Camera (with a SITE 1k x 1k chip with 24um sq. pixels).
The position obtained for the nova candidate is RA(2000) = 00h 42m
41.45s, Dec(2000) = +41° 14' 44.55" with an accuracy of 0.11". A
previous image from 2006 September 14.04650 shows no object at the position
of the nova candidate brighter than the limiting magnitude of 18.8 so
close to the core of M31. All magnitudes given are from a photometric
solution using R magnitudes of the Massey M31 catalog.