2009CBET.2057....1P

Independent discoveries of an apparent nova in M31 were received from two groups. P. Podigachoski, W. Pietsch, M. Henze, and V. Burwitz, Max-Planck- Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik; A. Updike, Clemson University (CU); P. Milne and G. Williams, University of Arizona; and D. H. Hartmann, CU, found M31N 2009-11c on two sets of twelve 60-s stacked R-band CCD images obtained with the robotic 60-cm telescope (+ E2V CCD camera) of the Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System (Super-LOTIS, located at Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak). The new object, which was first detected on Nov. 6.26 (mag 19.3) and 8.26 UT (magnitude 18.5) is located at R.A. = 0:43:10.48 ± 0s.01, Decl. = +41:12:18.4 ± 0".1 (equinox 2000.0; stated uncertainty 0".4), which is 295" east and 231" south of the center of M31. No object is visible at this position on a Super-LOTIS image from Nov. 4.26 UT (limiting R magnitude 19.0). The magnitudes were obtained from a photometric solution using R magnitudes of the Local Group Survey M31 catalogue (Massey et al. 2006, A.J. 131, 2478). A magnitude of R = 18.1 was measured for Nov. 9.267.