AAVSO Special Notice #184
Possible nova in Aquila - N Aql 2009
December 14, 2009
The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams announces in Electronic Telegram (CBET) No. 2075 (Daniel W. E. Green, ed.) that Koichi Nishiyama, Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, Japan, and Fujio Kabashima, Miyaki-cho, Saga-ken, Japan, report their discovery of a possible nova in Aquila [V1722 Aql] at magnitude 10.9 on two 40-second nfiltered CCD frames taken on Dec. 14.398 and 14.399 UT. Confirming unfiltered CCD frames taken around Dec. 14.408 show the object at magnitude 10.9. Coordinates: 19:14:09.73 +15:16:34.7 (equinox 2000.0) Nothing is visible at this position on their frames taken on Dec. 6.417 down to magnitude 13.7 and 7.412 down to 13.6. After being posted on the CBAT unconfirmed-objects webpage, P. Corelli, Pagnacco, Italy, reports that a 5-second unfiltered CCD exposure taken on Dec. 14.791 UT showed the object at position end figures 09.69s, 34.0" and magnitude 10.8. According to Corelli, Corelli nothing is visible at this position on a Digitized Sky Survey plate down to red mag approximately 21.5. W. Vollmann, Vienna, Austria, reports the object at visual magnitude 11.4 on Dec. 14.710 UT. Finder charts may be plotted by entering the coordinates into VSP at the URL: http://www.aavso.org/observing/charts/vsp/ N Aql 2009 has been assigned the VSX identifier VSX J191409.7+151634 and the AUID 000-BJS-232. Please report observations to the AAVSO International Database as N AQL 2009, VSX J191409.7+151634, or AUID 000-BJS-232. Congratulations to Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima on their latest discovery! Good observing, Elizabeth O. Waagen, AAVSO --------------------------------------------------- SUBMIT OBSERVATIONS TO THE AAVSO Information on submitting observations to the AAVSO may be found at: http://www.aavso.org/observing/submit/ SPECIAL NOTICE ARCHIVE AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION A Special Notice archive is available at the following URL: http://www.aavso.org/publications/specialnotice/ Subscribing and Unsubscribing may be done at the following URL: http://www.aavso.org/publications/email/