Nova Oph 2007

March 23, 2007

You can now retrieve a chart and sequence for the apparent nova in Ophiuchus [V2615 Oph] from:

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

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

enter N Oph 07 for the object name. When conditions permit, we will obtain an all-sky calibration for this field from Sonoita Research Observatory.

Arne Henden

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March 21, 2007

As reported in CBET 900, Hideo Nishimura (Miyawaki, Kakegawa, Shizuoka-ken) and Yuji Nakamura (Kameyama, Mie, Japan) have discovered a possible new nova [V2615 Oph] around magnitude 10. The position is

17:42:44.00 -23:40:35.1 J2000

Naito and Narusawa at Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory obtained a low-resolution spectrogram that indicates this is an Fe-II type nova, with typical P-Cyg line profiles.

You can draw a chart of the region using the coordinates above and VSP: