Following the posting on the Central Bureau’s Transient Object Confirmation Page about a possible Nova in Cen (TOCP Designation: PNV J13410800-5815470) we performed some follow-up of this object remotely through the 2.0-m f/10.0 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD of “Faulkes Telescope South” (MPC Code – E10).
On our images taken on March 24.5, 2012 we can confirm the presence of an optical counterpart with filtered R-Bessel CCD magnitude 9.3 (USNO-B1.0 Catalogue reference stars) at coordinates:
R.A. = 13 41 09.36, Decl.= -58 15 16.9
(equinox 2000.0; USNO-B1.0 catalogue reference stars).
Our confirmation image:
You can see an animation showing a comparison between our confirmation image and the archive POSS2/UKSTU plate (R Filter – 1994).
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