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David H. Levy

2500 E. Wetstones

Vail, AZ 85641

Presented at the 88th Spring Meeting of the AAVSO, July 3, 1999

Abstract

While doing research for my 1991 biography of Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto, I found evidence that he had discovered a probable nova in Corvus. Since this was an unusually high galactic latitude for a nova, I tried to find confirming evidence for his 1931 observation. Although my results were negative for 1931, I did find nine additional outbursts in my search through several hundred Harvard patrol plates. I observed the variable, now called TV Corvi, in outburst for the first time visually on March 23, 1990, and several times since then.

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