21-July-2003, 08:15 PM
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Possible nova discovered
I'm new to the Sky & Telescope Astro Alert, and I just received notice of a possible nova discovered in the constellation Ophiucus.
More information can be found here.
But here is part of the write-up:
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A. Takao reported the detection of a likely new object on his two
unfiltered CCD images taken on July 10 (11.4C mag) and 16 (11.2C
mag). According to ASAS-3 public data, this object was recorded to
brighten on June 15. After maintaining magnitudes of V=11.0-11.5,
the object apparently reached a maximum of V=10.6 on June 26
(vsnet-campaign-nova 1327, 1324). V. Tabur reported that it can be
detected on images after 2003 March (vsnet-campaign-nova 1325),
which implies that it is a slow nova (vsnet-campaign-nova 1326).
G. Bolt performed time-series photometry, which showed 0.1-mag slow
modulations (vsnet-campaign-nova 1335). W. Liller performed
spectroscopy on July 18, and reported the presence of strong H_alpha
emission, which means that it is a genuine nova (vsnet-campaign-nova
1345). C. Buil also reported a strong H_alpha emission in the
spectrum taken on July 19 (vsnet-campaign-nova 1346, 1348). The
object is still bright (vsnet-campaign-nova 1341, 1349, 1328, 1334,
1329, 1330, 1331, 1333, 1336, 1338, 1340, 1343, 1342, 1344, 1347).
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(I, of course, have no idea what all the technical jargon and numbers mean.  )
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