Vend95: independent discovery of a flare star in front of M31

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I've just found a rather bright transient on M31 images taken by Tamás Tordai tonight (28 September, 18:38 UT) . It appears to be an optical flare of a known foreground star. 
The recent flare has been detected by Flavio Castelli et al. as AT 2026adgl just 21 minutes earlier than our  image was taken. Our images taken at 19:22 UT clearly show that the object had faded significantly during the 44 minutes since the previous set of images was obtained.

Further investigation showed that the star was brightest on the 2×120 s images taken by Tamás Tordai at 18:33 UT, and then faded steadily on the images obtained later.


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Vend78: a possible young nova in M31

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I've just found a ~19.4 C mag possible nova on my 4×90s co-added images of M31 taken tonight (2025 Dec 11.7759 UT) with a Luminance filter using the 0.43 m Dall-Kirkham telescope at the Alnitak Remote Observatory, Sierra del Segura, Spain. Follow-up images obtained this morning (2025 Dec 12.2138 UT) with a 0.61 m f/6.5 CDK reflector at the Sierra Remote Observatory, Auberry, California, USA (iTelescope.net) show that it is still rising, at around 18.3 CV mag. It has been reported to the TOCP website as PNV J00421476+4117284 and to the TNS server as AT 2025agmm . Preliminary coordinates of Vend78 : 00 42 14.76 +41 17 28.4 (J2000.0) Vend78 at 2025. dec 12.2138UT on 3x120s co-added images made with a 0.61-m f/6.5 CDK reflector, Sierra Remote Observatory at Auberry California USA (iTelescope.net). The discovery was made using the Alnitak Remote Observatories robotic telescope network, ARTA program.
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Vend91: very bright nova in M31

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I've just found a quite bright (~18.2 mag) possible nova on my 4x90s images made with the 43cm CDK at Alnitak Remote Observatory, Nerpio, Spain on September 04.1512UT, using a Luminance filter. Coordinates of Vend91 : 00 42 50.3813 +41 18 58.764 (J2000.0) The discovery of Vend91 has been reported to the TOCP website as PNV J00425038+4118587 and to the TNS server as AT  2026aaom . Update on 11th September: Vend91 is still rising. By this morning it had brightened to approximately 15.2-15,4 magnitudes. Update on 12th September.  we now have three independent spectra, Vend91 is officially an FeII type extragalactic nova!  "Diff1x" image with reference image subtracted. Discovery image. M31 with Vend91 on 10th September, using the 28 cm RASA at UDRO (iTelescope.net), Green channel (TG)   The central region of M31 cropped, Vend91 marked Rencent image with te 43 cm CDK at UDRO, using Luminance filter Update on September 12: We now have three independent spectra of Ve...
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Vend74: bright nova candidate in M31

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I've just discovered a bright (~16.411CV magnitudes) possible nova on my 8x120s co-added M31 photos taken at 2025. november 03.1914UT using the 0.61-m f/6.5 CDK reflector, Sierra Remote Observatory at Auberry California USA (iTelescope.net network).  The transiens was visible on all eight individual 120s images. The discovery of this transient has been reported as PNV J00424541+4115192 and AT 2025acfl respectively. Coordinates of Vend74 : 00 42 45.52   +41 15 18.8  (J20000.0). The astrometry was provided by Tamás Elek, Nyíregyháza-Oros, Hungary using the original discovery images).
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