SIMBAD references

A. C. Gilmore and P. M. Kilmartin report the following precise position for the nova from an unfiltered 0.4-s CCD exposure taken on July 5.380 UT with the 1-m f/3.8 reflector at the University of Canterbury's Mt. John Observatory (measured by Gilmore using 'Astrometrica' with UCAC2 stars): R.A. = 18h17m50s.77, Decl. = -30o26'31".2 (equinox 2000.0). Photoelectric photometry by Kilmartin and Gilmore with the 0.6-m f/16 reflector in marginal conditions (occasional fog and low cloud crossing) yields: July 5.408, V = 8.15, U-B = -0.04, B-V = +0.48, V-R = +0.38, V-I = +0.75, air mass 1.167; 5.456, 8.17, +0.03, +0.46, +0.33, +0.67, 1.064 (comparison star Cousins' E749). Attempts to identify a precursor star on the Digitized Sky Survey were unsuccessful; a 15th-mag star that is near the nova position, but too far off to be a likely precursor, hides fainter stars.