Electronic Telegram No. 4322
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NOVA IN LUPUS = PNV J15290182-4449409
     J. Strader, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State
University, reports -- together with K. Z. Stanek, C. S. Kochanek, J. S.
Brown, T. W.-S. Holoien, and J. Shields, Ohio State University; B. J. Shappee,
Carnegie Observatories; J. L. Prieto, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago,
and Millennium Institute of Astrophysics; D. Bersier, Liverpool John Moores
University; S. Dong, S. Bose, and P. Chen, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and
Astrophysics, Peking University; L. Chomiuk, Michigan State University; and J.
Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia -- the discovery of an apparent nova (magnitude
V = 9.1) on images obtained on Sept. 24.010 UT in the course of the V-band
All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernova (ASAS-SN) using the robotic 14-cm
telescopes.  The object was measured to be located at R.A. = 15h29m01s.82,
Decl. = -44d49'40".9 (equinox 2000.0).  Additional magnitudes reported by
Strader:  Sept. 20.012, [17.5 (ASAS-SN); 24.743, 6.4 (1-m LCOGT telescope at
Sutherland, South Africa); 25.723, 6.3 (LCOGT).
     The variable was designated PNV J15290182-4449409 when it was posted at
the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage.
     E. O. Waagen, American Association of Variable Star Observers, forwards
the following visual magnitudes for PNV J15290182-4449409:  Sept. 25.078 UT,
6.3 (S. Otero, Buenos Aires, Argentina); 25.403, 5.6 (R. Stubbings, Victoria,
Australia); 25.954, 6.5 (A. Amorim, Florianopolis, Brazil); 25.967, 6.8
(Otero); 25.986, 6.8 (G. Ballan, Rosario, Argentina); 26.017, 6.7 (Amorim);
26.422, 6.7 (D. Benn, Klemzig, S. Australia).  She adds that W. Clark
(Bannister Green, Felsted, Essex, UK) measured R = 5.9 on Sept. 26.425.
Waagen also notes that T. Bohlsen (Armidale, NSW, Australia) obtained a noisy
spectrogram on Sept. 24 (time unknown) that shows H_alpha emission and also
an image that yielded magnitude V = 6.8; he surmised from this that the
variable does appear to be a galactic nova.


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2016 September 27                (CBET 4322)              Daniel W. E. Green