SIMBAD references

H. Yamaoka, Kyushu University, forwards the following position for this object (cf. IAUC 8380) measured by K. Itagaki from an unfiltered CCD image taken on Aug. 5.475 UT (with poor sky conditions; the new object was at mag 8.0): R.A. = 17h29m18s.81, Decl. = -31o46'01".5 (equinox 2000.0). This appears nearly identical with the location of a very red catalogued star whose USNO-A2.0 position end figures are 18s.818, 01".68 (blue mag 19.7, red mag 17.4), and whose 2MASS position end figures are 18s.82, 01".5 (J = 14.4). Yamaoka adds that a low-resolution spectrum of the new object, taken by M. Fujii, Bisei, Okayama, Japan, on Aug. 5.49, shows broad H_alpha and H_beta emissions with P-Cyg profiles (H_alpha FWHM = 3000 km/s), along with several Fe II and O I emission lines – suggesting that the object is a classical nova. W. Liller, Vina del Mar, Chile, writes that the nova was fainter than mag 11.0 on a Technical Pan film exposed (with an orange filter) on July 19.40.