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Originally Posted by Merlin66
Well done Rob!
I remember another Nova Muscae back in the 80's when we (ASV Photographic Section) had pre-discovery images - but they were not checked before Liller notified the IAU......
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Haha, time is of the essence! Took me ages to do all the necessary checks, get rough astrometry, estimate magnitude etc. I filled out the TOCP form and was about to hit the send button - but it still seemed too good to be true! So I dragged the camera out to the backyard again, sighted the nova for a spectrum, took aa ambit 30 sec exposure, looked at it and immediately saw the bright H-alpha & H-beta emissions. I practically ran back inside and hit the send button!
Cheers -