Very slow possible nova in Vela

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2 May 2022 at 9:04 pm #610034
Robin Leadbeater
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If you have access to southern skies Gaia22alz/AT2022bpq in Vela could be worth a look. It must be one of the slowest novae on record having taken 3 months so far to rise to mag 13 currently.
https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=15355

Here is the latest ASASSN light curve
https://asas-sn.osu.edu/sky-patrol/coordinate/c69851ca-a68f-4345-951e-b796f5cd470f

The 2SPOT remote amateur spectrograph has started taking nightly spectra
https://www.spectro-aras.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2952

Cheers
Robin
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3 May 2022 at 4:34 pm #610052

Dr Paul Leyland
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Dec of -56 degrees is a bit far south even for La Palma. I will pass on this one.

4 May 2022 at 1:18 pm #610066

Gary Poyner
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I obtained an unfiltered CCD image from SLOOH Chile on May 3.006UT and measured it at 12.540CV +/- 0.004 using a nearby A2 star. There currently isn’t a sequence with the AAVSO chart, although I suspect that will appear before too long.

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