Following the posting on the Central Bureau's Transient Object Confirmation Page about a possible Nova in Cep (TOCP Designation: PNV J23080471+6046521) we performed some follow-up of this object remotely through the 0.43-m f/6.8 reflector + CCD of ITelescope network (MPC Code I89 - Nerpio, Spain).

On our images taken on February 02.8, 2013 we can confirm the presence of an optical counterpart with unfiltered CCD magnitude 9.8 at coordinates:

R.A. = 23 08 04.70, Decl.= +60 46 52.0 (equinox 2000.0; USNO-B1.0 catalogue reference stars).

Our annotated confirmation image
Possible Nova
© Remanzacco Observatory

An animation showing a comparison between our confirmation image and the archive POSS2/UKSTU plate (R Filter - 1991) can be viewed here.

Kazuyoshi Imamura (Okayama Univ. of Sci. team, JAPAN) reports on vsnet-alert mailing list that they "succeeded in obtaining a low-resolution spectrum (R~400) of the PNV J23080471+6046521 (in Cep) on February 2.526 UT at the OUS (Okayama Univ. of Sci.) observatory......From our result, this object is thought to be a classical nova (Fe II class)"

Low Res Spectrum
© K. Imamura (Okayama Univ. of Sci. team, JAPAN)