Accelerated rise of the slow extragalactic nova Vend51 (AT 2023oom)
The extragalactic slow nova AT 2023oom (Vend51) reached maximum at 17.312R (0.038) on Wednesday morning (2024. January 17.). Update: Our latest photometry show it around 18.846CV (0.135) on Tuesday night (January 23/24). Light curve of AT 2023oom (Vend51) based on the photometry of unfiltered CCD images made by Tamás Tordai, CCD images with Luminance filter made by Róbert Fidrich, and CCD images with BVR filters made by Allen W. Shafter.