SIMBAD references

Following posting of the above report on the Central Bureau's unconfirmed-objects webpage, numerous additional claims of independent discovery have been received. The first was from Zhang-wei Jin and Xing Gao, using a Canon EOS 350D camera (+ 7-cm-aperture, 200-mm-f.l. f/2.8 telephoto lens) at Xingming Observatory, Mt. Nanshan, China, as part of their nova survey with additional details of their report also supplied by J. Beize of Beijing; their several discovery images (limiting mag about 15.0) were taken around Mar. 7.881 UT, showing the apparent nova at mag 8.1, and giving the position initially as R.A. = 19h58m33s, Decl. = +29o52'05" (this was later revised to position end figures 33s.57, 11".6, as measured by Beize). Nothing was visible on their survey images taken on Mar. 2 and 5, and their images are posted at website URL http://www.xjltp.com/XM08AD.htm.