Ah, yes, the nova search. With the tiny fields of view I work with these days nova searches are history. But at least a couple of us here on UA used to be into it in a big way. Back in the mid 70s a guy in california called Ben Meyer started the PROBLICOM (Projection Blink Comparator) program wherein he coordinated folks all around the world taking wide angle shots of the sky on film of specific portions of the sky. Locally I think the only participants were Bruce Grim, Charlie Green and me. I've got boxes and binders full of slides taken over the years of the 4 portions of the sky I was assigned. None of us found anything. And I think we all agreed that taking the images was easy but processing the film and then trying to examine them with all manner of homemade devices was a pain. patrick On 02 Feb 2013, at 17:43, Daniel Holmes wrote:
http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2013/02/possible-nova-in-cepheus.html
Dan