2010CBET.2594....1R

Jiangao Ruan, Fangchenggang, Guangxi, China; and Xing Gao, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, report the discovery of a possible nova (mag approximately 17.2) on one 60-s unfiltered CCD survey image (limiting mag about 19.0) taken by Xing Gao in the course of the Xingming Observatory Sky Survey at Mt. Nanshan around Dec. 15.528 UT using a Celestron C14 35.6-cm f/6.9 Schmidt- Cassegrain telescope. The new object is approximately located at R.A. = 0:42:56.67 ± 0s.01, Decl. = +41:17:21.2 ± 0".1 (equinox 2000.0), which is about 139" east and 73" north of the center of NGC 224. Additional Xingming magnitudes for the variable: Dec. 13, [19.0; 14, [19.0; 16.517, 17.1; 16.518, 17.0. Nothing is visible at this position on a Digitized Sky Survey image (from a IIIa-J plate + GG495 filter) taken on 1985 Dec. 17. The Xingming images have been posted at the following website URL: http://www.xjltp.com/XOSS/XM08JR/XM08JR.htm. 0.65-m telescope at Ondrejov).