SIMBAD references

G. Pojmanski, D. Szczygiel, and B. Pilecki, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, report their discovery of a possible nova in a crowded star field on V-band CCD exposures taken with a 70-mm- aperture, 200-mm-f.l. f/2.8 camera lens in the course of the All- Sky Automated Survey, providing the variable's position as R.A. = 13h31m16s, Decl. = -63o57'.6 (equinox 2000.0). ASAS-3 V-band magnitudes for the variable: May 4.168 UT, [14: (presumed; not detected); 8.235, 8.53; 11.108, 9.12; 11.140, 9.13. M. Templeton, AAVSO, reports that L. Elenin (Moscow, Russia) observed the variable at V = 9.69 on May 13.466, remotely using a 0.15-m f/7.3 refractor near Perth, W. Australia, and providing position end figures 15s.76, 38".5 for the new object. E. Guido and G. Sostero write that they obtained unfiltered CCD images remotely with a 0.25-m f/6 telescope near Moorook, Australia, on May 13.57 that yield magnitude about 8.6 for the variable and position end figures 15s.77, 38".6; comparison with an Anglo-Australian Observatory Schmidt red plate (limiting magnitude about 20), obtained on 1997 Feb. 5, shows that this position is nearly coincident with a field star with mag about 15 whose position end figures are 15s.68, 38".6 (difficult measurement due to extreme crowding of nearby field stars). Additional information was given on CBET 1800.