2010CBET.2533....2S

A. W. Shafter, San Diego State University; M. J. Darnley and M. F. Bode, John Moores University, Liverpool; R. Ciardullo, Pennsylvania State University; and K. A. Misselt, University of Arizona, report that a spectrum of M33N 2010-10a, obtained on 2010 Oct. 28.37 UT with the Low-Resolution Spectrograph on the 9.2-m Hobby-Eberly Telescope, reveals broad Balmer emission (FWHM about 4800 km/s), along with weaker emission features of He I and Fe II superimposed on a flat continuum. These observations confirm that the object is a nova and that it is a member of the "Fe IIb" or "hybrid" spectroscopic class.