AAVSO Special Notice #154
Possible nova in the Large Magellanic Cloud
May 7, 2009
W. Liller of Vina del Mar, Chile has reported the appearance of a possible nova in the Large Magellanic Cloud [N LMC 2009 No. 2]. The object appeared at an unfiltered photographic magnitude of 12.1 on 2009 May 04.994 (JD 2454956.494) on a pair of images taken with Kodak Tech Pan film. The approximate position of this object is RA: 05h 31.4m , Dec: -67d 06m This is in an extremely crowded field within the LMC, so the progenitor position is unknown at this time. Observations of the new object to obtain precision astrometry, photometry, and spectroscopy are requested. An AAVSO Alert Notice will be issued if and when the object is confirmed as a nova or other noteworthy event. [The object was confirmed as a nova, but no Alert Notice was issued - EOW 2017.] This AAVSO Special Notice was prepared by M. Templeton. --------------------------------------------------- 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/