SIMBAD references

S. Nakano, Sumoto, Japan, reports the discovery by Koichi Nishiyama (Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, Japan) and Fujio Kabashima (Miyaki- cho, Saga-ken, Japan) of an apparent bright nova in M31 on seven 20-s unfiltered CCD frames taken around Nov. 17.57 UT using a 40-cm reflector. The new star, designated M31N 2007-11d at the CBAT website that catalogues M31 apparent novae (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/CBAT_M31.html) and located at R.A. = 0h44m54s.60, Decl. = +41o37"40".0 (equinox 2000.0), was first detected at mag 17.7 on Nov. 16.51 and reached mag 14.9 on Nov. 20.385.