Vend84: independent discovery of a possible nova in M31
I've just found a quite bright (~18.0CV) possible nova on my M31 images taken this morning (2026 May 22.1380 UT) with the 0.43 m CDK at Alnitak Remote Observatory.. It seems this is AT 2026nhw reported my the XOSS team around 9 hours ahead of me. Checking my yesterday images, it was already visible on yesterday morning (2026 May 21.1465 UT) too , but then it was significantly fainter (~18.8CV), probably this is the reason I missed the discovery earlier. Thus I just have another independent discovery and prediscovery observations. The discovery image. The discovery image with reference image subtracted. Observations were made using Alnitak Remote Observatories robotic telescope network, Alnitak Research Telescope Access (ARTA) program.