Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams

CBAT "Transient Object Followup Reports"

PNV J00424012+4117273

PNV J00424012+4117273   2018 10 13.8203*  00 42 40.12 +41 17 27.3  17.5 U   47W  80N  M31       8 1 

2018 13 84534

F. Castellani, Verona, Italy reports the discovery by Raffaele Belligoli, Flavio Castellani and Claudio Marangoni, in the course of the ISSP Italian Supernovae Search Project, of an apparent nova in two images taken with a Moravian G4-9000 KAF CCD unfiltered, from Monte Baldo Observatory (Ferrara di Monte Baldo, Verona, Italy), with the 0.4m f.8 Ritchey-Chrétien telescope, obtained on 2018 October 13.822 and 13.845 UT. The new object is located at RA 00 42 40.12 DEC +41 17 27.3 (equinox 2000.0) Apparent magnitude about 17.5 in host Galaxy M31. Nothing is visible at this position on the reference image of 19Th september 2018 The discovery image is available at: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhJ1qiHg_ZAhgdAF9DoigxiyJeZjeQ