Perhaps this will be the start of something big. Clear skies ...

NOVA AQUILAE 1999 No. 2

On December 1st, while sweeping in the Milky Way with his
14 x 100 binoculars, Alfredo Pereira of Cabo Da Roca, Portugal,
found a 6th-magnitude star 2 degrees NNW of Delta Aquilae where
none had been before. He reported the find to the Central
Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
which obtained quick confirmation from several other observers
and late on December 1st issued IAU Circular 7323 announcing the
discovery of Nova Aquilae 1999 No. 2.

Among those helping to confirm the object was Sky & Telescope
associate editor Dennis di Cicco, who obtained the following
precise position (equinox 2000.0) from CCD images:

R.A. Dec.
19h 23m 05.38s +4d 57' 20.1"

Several visual magnitude estimates were also made by observers
with binoculars near 23h UT on December 1st: 5.8 (A. Pereira),
5.9 (C. Vitorino), 5.1 (Daniel W. E. Green), 5.6 (Roger W. Sinnott).
Whether the nova will brighten further remains to be seen.

A finder chart for Nova Aquilae 1999 No. 2 is available from Sky &
Telescope at http://www.skypub.com/sights/images/novaaql992.gif

The Editors of Sky & Telescope
December 2, 1999




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