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New optical nova candidate in M31

Citation:

Stefanescu A, Pietsch W, Burwitz V, Hatzidimitriou D, Pöpsel J, Binnewies S, Ruder H, Papamastorakis G. New optical nova candidate in M31. [Internet]. 2007;1198:1.

Abstract:

We report the discovery of an optical nova candidate in M 31 on ten stacked R filter CCD images (each with 60 sec exposure) obtained on 2007 Aug 30.018 with an R magnitude of 17.8 obtained at the 60cm f/8 Ganymed telescope located at Skinakas Observatory, Crete, Greece, using a ST10XME CCD Camera. The object is confirmed on CCD images with the same telescope using a broad H-alpha filter (4*120 s stacked, 17.7 mag) obtained on 2007 Aug 30.029.

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