2011CBET.2796....1B

Nicholas J. Brown, Two Rocks, Western Australia, reports his discovery of a possible nova (mag 10.2) on two TMax 400 films taken on Aug. 4.73 UT using a 135-mm-f.l. f/2 Canon camera lens. Brown's approximate position for the variable is R.A. = 14:54:20, Decl. = -55:05:03 (equinox 2000.0); he notes that nothing brighter than mag 11.7 appears on a film that he took on July 5.85. The variable was designated PNV J14542000-5505030 when it was posted on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage, and based on the spectroscopic reports confirming the object as a nova (see below), it has been assigned the permanent GCVS designation PR Lup by N. N. Samus. Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes, and Giovanni Sostero report that a CCD image taken of PR Lup remotely through the 2.0-m f/10 Ritchey-Chretien "Faulkes Telescope South" (+ Bessel R filter) on Aug. 13.5 shows it at mag 8.4 and at position R.A. = 14:54:23.09, Decl. = -55:05:11.2 (equinox 2000.0; USNO-B1.0 catalogue reference stars). Guido et al. have posted a color image at website URL http://bit.ly/onysAh, and a comparison of their image with a Digitized Sky Survey R plate from 1999 is posted at http://bit.ly/pUq8jd.