Event: Nova in Aquila
Discovered By: K. Itagaki (Yamagata, Japan)
Discovery Date: 2008 September 22.5 UTC (JD 2454732.0)
Discovery Magnitude: m = 14.0 (unfiltered)
Position: RA = 19h 06m 28.58s , Dec = +07d 06m 44.3s (from Itagaki)
Charts: Finter charts for this object may be plotted using VSP:
http://www.aavso.org/vsp
Event: Nova in Musca
Discovered By: W. Liller (Vina del Mar, Chile)
Discovery Date: 2008 September 28.998 UT (JD 2454738.498)
Discovery Magnitude: m=8.6 (Tech Pan phot + orange filter)
Position: RA = 13h 16m 36.44s , Dec = -67d 36m 47.8s (from P. Nelson)
Charts: Finder charts for this object may be plotted by entering the coordinates above into VSP: http://www.aavso.org/vsp
Event: Rare outburst of V358 Lyr
Discovered By: Jeremy Shears and Gary Poyner, BAAVSS, from a Bradford Robotic Telescope image. Confirmed by Shawn Dvorak, Rolling Hills Observatory.
Discovery Magnitude: CV=16.11 +/- 0.04
Discovery Date: November 22.917 UT
Independently obtained spectroscopy of the supernova by Dennefeld et al.
Event: Nova in The Large Magellanic Cloud [N LMC 2009]
Discovered By: W. Liller (Vina del Mar, Chile)
Discovery Date: 2009 February 05.067 UT (JD 2454867.567)
Discovery Magnitude: m=10.6 (Tech Pan photograph, unfiltered)
Position: RA = 05h 40m 44.20s , Dec = -66d 40m 11.6s (J2000; H. Bond et al.)
Charts: Finder charts for this object may be plotted by entering the coordinates above into VSP: http://www.aavso.org/vsp
Event: Nova in Sagittarius [subsequently named V5581 Sgr]
Discovered By: K. Nishiyama (Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, Japan) and F. Kabashima (Miyaki-cho, Saga-ken, Japan)
Discovery Date: 2009 April 21.711 UTC (JD 2454943.211)
Discovery Magnitude: m=11.7 (unfiltered)
Position: RA = 17h 44m 08.44s , Dec = -26d 05m 48.7s (from K. Kinugasa, S. Honda, and O. Hashimoto, Gunma Astronomical Obs.)
Event: Nova in Centaurus
Discovered By: G. Pojmanski, D. Szczygiel, and B. Pilecki (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory)
Discovery Date: 2009 May 08.235 UT
Discovery Magnitude: m=8.235 (ASAS V)
Position: RA = 13h 31m 15.76s , Dec = -63d 57m 38.5s (from L. Elenin, Moscow, Russia, using the Tzec Maun-Pingelly 0.15-m refractor near Perth, Australia)
