SIMBAD references

G. Pojmanski, D. Szczygiel, and B. Pilecki, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, report the following prediscovery V magnitudes for this nova (cf. IAUC 8898) from 3-min CCD exposures obtained with a 70-mm (200-mm-f.l.) f/2.8 telephoto lens in the course of the All Sky Automated Survey (pixel size 14".8), indicating that the object erupted in early June and reached V about 4.1 (when the images were saturated, and aperture photometry often underestimates the true stellar brightness by 0.1-0.5 mag): May 8.059 UT, [14:; 12.996, [14:; June 1.966, [14:; 5.968, 4.08; 17.954, 6.50; Aug. 18.429, 9.28; 22.412, 9.33; 28.396, 9.58; Sept. 1.415, 9.44; 5.408, 9.49; 11.399, 9.56; 19.383, 9.69; 22.390, 9.74; 26.355, 9.77; 30.358, 9.86; Oct. 4.350, 9.93; 8.343, 9.98; 12.329, 10.02; Nov. 4.281, 10.36; 7.329, 10.43; 14.353, 10.45; 18.261, 10.55. The nova also was not visible in an I-band image taken on June 2.978.