Vend88: bright possible nova in M31
I've just found a bright (approximately 16.8C mag) possible nova on 15x120s M31 photos of Tamás Tordai made tonight (aug. 14.0920UT). It was already visible near 18.0C on his first 25x120s M31 series made by him ~3.5 hours earlier too. Updated coordinates of Vend88 : 00 43 17.44 +41 26 52.8 (J2000.0) . The discovery of Vend88 has already been reported to the TOCP website as PNV J00431729+4126486 and to the TNS-server as AT 2026yvz. The discovery image