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July 9, 2007

V5558 Sgr continues to brighten; recent reports from Neil Butterworth place this nova at V=6.5 or so. We recommend continued monitoring of this slow nova.

At V=6.5, this is an easy target for all observers, whether visual, PEP or CCD. The brightest comparison star on the current VSP chart is V=6.0, so given below is another, brighter, comparison star that we will add to the sequence in the next day or so:

HD 167264 RA=18:15:12.905 DEC=-20:43:41.76
label = 54 V=5.352 (B-V) = 0.050 (U-B) = -0.859

June 29, 2007

The slow nova V5558 Sgr appears to be close to orbrighter than m(vis) = 7.6, and brighter comparisonstars than the initial bright limit of the chartmay be required. If necessary, please use the two additional comparison stars for this object that may be obtained by plotting a 240-arcmin chart with VSP:

obsolete link: [http://www.aavso.org/observing/charts/vsp/]

2016 link: https://www.aavso.org/vsp

—Notes by Msgr. Ron Royer, with additional information compiled from the AAVSO Archives