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 subtracted.