2008IAUC.8971....2Y

H. Yamaoka, Kyushu University, reported the discovery by K. Itagaki (Yamagata, Japan) of a possible nova on a CCD image taken on Sept. 1.6 UT with a 0.21-m reflector in the course of his sky survey, with a confirming unfiltered CCD image taken on Sept. 1.603 with a 0.60-m reflector that yields mag about 12.7 and the following precise position: R.A. = 2h00m25s.40, Decl. = +44o10'18".7 (equinox 2000.0). A patrol image from Jan. 26.532 shows nothing brighter than mag 17.5 at this position; there is a very faint star (red mag 20.4, blue mag 21.2) in the GSC 2.3 catalogue with position end figures 25s.44, 19".1. Additional confirming observations were published on CBET 1491, including investigations that found nothing brighter than blue mag about 20.5 at the position of this variable. S. Korotkiy, Moscow, and colleagues report that photometry shows a light curve with amplitude 0.13 mag and period 0.055(1) day. N. N. Samus, Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, informs us that this variable has been assigned the designation V466 And.