2005IAUC.8635....1L

W. Liller, Vina del Mar, Chile, reports his discovery of an apparent nova (mag approximately 11.5) located at R.A. = 5h10m.6, Decl. = -69o13' (equinox 2000.0), which is near the compact cluster NGC 1856, on two unfiltered Technical Pan films taken on Nov. 26.164 UT with a 0.2-m Schmidt camera; the new object is also present at mag about 12.8 on a film taken on Nov. 22.065. Nothing brighter than mag 13 appears at this position on earlier photographs, the most recent taken on Nov. 20. Liller forwards the following precise position measured by B. Allen (Blenheim, New Zealand) from a CCD image taken on Nov. 27.41: R.A. = 5h10m33s.79, Decl. = -69o12'35".2 (V = 12.6; reference star GSC 9161.746) – showing clearly that the new object is not coincident with any star visible on Palomar Sky Survey or Digitized Sky Survey images (limiting mag about 20). Visual magnitude estimate by A. Pearce, Nedlands, W. Australia: Nov. 27.576, 12.8.