SIMBAD references

W. Liller, Vina del Mar, Chile, reports his discovery of a possible nova (V approximately 10.8) near the position of the presumed 1937 nova YY Dor (without providing a measured position for the new object) on two unfiltered Technical Pan photographs taken on Oct. 20.193 UT; nothing was present at this location on his 0.2-m Schmidt camera photos taken on Oct. 17.181. A visual magnitude estimate by A. Pearce (Nedlands, W. Australia) on Oct. 21.576 gave 12.0. L. A. G. Monard, Pretoria, South Africa, reports that a CCD image taken on Oct. 21.88 shows a star of mag V about 12.0 located at R.A. = 5h56m41s.84, Decl. = -68o54'37".1 (equinox 2000.0), adding that a USNO-A2.0 star with blue mag 18.8 and red mag 17.8 has position end figures 42s.38, 34".3. This appears to be some distance from YY Dor [cf. IBVS 1248, which cited Hoffmeister 1949, Astron. Abhandl. 12(1), A24], for which an accurate position is not available (the high precision given by Subramaniam and Anupama 2001, A.Ap. 449, 451, seems unwarranted). Henize et al. (1954, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 40, 368) gave R.A. = 5h57m.0, Decl. = -68o55' (equinox 2000.0, precessed from the original 1900.0 coordinates; earlier raw X,Y plate coordinates provided by McKibben 1941, Harv. Bull. 915) from Harvard/Boyden plates for the 1937 nova, and Hoffmeister gave R.A. = 5h57m30s, Decl. = -68o55'.1 (equinox 2000.0; precessed from the original 1875.0 coordinates) from Windhoek plates.