SIMBAD references

M. Fraser, L. Magill, S. Smartt, and R. Kotak, Queens University, Belfast, report that they obtained spectra with the Nordic Optical Telescope (+ ALFOSC + Grism 4; range about 320-910 nm) on Nov. 29.0 UT, showing that the MASTER transient appears to be a Galactic nova. The spectrum has a flat continuum, with Balmer series emission lines at zero redshift with a full-width-at-half- maximum of about 2000 km/s. The apparent magnitude at discovery implies that the nova was already significantly post-maximum then (Nov. 7). There is no source coincident with the nova in archival Digitized Sky Survey or 2MASS images.