Nova in Puppis

[gary]

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/resources/proamcollab/astroalert/11352496.html

Nova in Puppis
This is an AstroAlert from Sky & Telescope.
November 15, 2007

Alfredo Jose Serra Pereira of Carnaxide, Portugal, has discovered a
nova in the constellation Puppis during a visual search with 14 x 100
binoculars. He spotted the new star on Nov. 14, 2007, near 5:30
Universal Time and estimated its magnitude as 7.0. Within a few hours,
James McGaha in Arizona and James Young in California carefully
measured the nova's position, describing it as about magnitude 6.4.

Nova Puppis 2007 can be found about 1° northeast of RS Puppis, a
Cepheid variable star. The nova's 2000.0 coordinates are right
ascension 8h 16.3m, declination –34° 15'. Its type is not yet known,
nor whether it is still brightening or beginning to fade.

Full details of the discovery are on IAU Circular 8895, available by
subscription from the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. More information can also be found on Alert
Notice 362 of the American Association of Variable Star Observers.

The AAVSO website provides a wealth of guidelines for amateurs who
wish to get involved in making and submitting magnitude estimates of
variable stars and novae.

Roger W. Sinnott
Senior Editor
Sky & Telescope

[Astroman]

Not sure but I think some of this has been edited, I got this extra bit of info...

"he ( Alfredo Jose Serra Pereira) had nova-
hunted for 625.85 hr since his discovery of the 2001 nova V4740 Sgr
(cf. IAUC 7706). Pereira adds that nothing was detected at this
position in his visual searches during Nov. 6.23, 7.22, 8.23, 10.23,
and 11.22 down to mag about 8; additional monitoring during Nov.
14.243-14.256 also yielded mag 7.0.

At request of CBAT astrometry of the Nova shows
R.A. = 8h16m18s.01, Decl. = -34o15'24".1, red mag 6.5
and
R.A 8h 16m 17.99s decl -34d 15min 25.0s
from 2 different observers

Only object on Sky Survey plates at this position
is a mag 20 star"