* Astronomy

Huzio of Saga prefecture and Koichi Nishiyama of Fukuoka prefecture, Kurume city, have discovered a Nova in M33.
The magnitude 17.1 He/N-class Nova was discovered from an image taken by a 40 centimetre reflecting telescope.

Position (2000): R.A. = 01h33m58s.64, Dec. = +30°57'34".6

Both discoverers photographed M33 on September 10th, the `new star`, which was dimmer than magnitude 19.6, was not seen. Both observed the magnitude 17.1 nova on the 18.816th, September.
The nova was confirmed the following night by Tomokazu Itagaki of Yamagata city and Bisei space guard centre.

Read more (Japanese)
CBET 1074 (Subscription)

Nova M33.kmz
Google Sky file

-- Edited by Blobrana at 15:57, 2008-01-12