New bright nova in Sagittarius

[Rob_K]

John Seach of NSW has added another nova to his growing tally, well done! This was put up on CBAT's Transient Objects Confirmation Page (TOCP) as PNV J18365700-2855420 and was quickly confirmed by the FRODOspec spectrograph on the Liverpool Telescope as a bright FeII-type classical nova.
http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/followups/J18365700-2855420.html
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=7230

Latest magnitude quoted was 5.3 (by K Itagaki) which is in naked-eye territory! Cloudy here but will try for a shot over the next few days.

Cheers -

[Andrew Pearce]

Hi All

Between clouds I was able to visually observe the nova at mag 6.0 on March 16.75UT.

Regards
Andrew Pearce (WA)

[cometcatcher]

Very easy to spot in the finder scope. It's in a clear field, at least visually. 45 x 30 secs with the 8" F4, slightly cropped.

[Curt]

Great shot Kevin. Going to put this one on the observing list.