We want to\u00a0present\u00a0a follow-up investigation of\u00a0a\u00a0discovered nova\u00a0in the dwarf galaxy IC 1613 found\u00a0by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search program\u00a0(LOSS)\u00a0on 2015-09-10.840. This nova\u00a0was independently\u00a0observed\u00a0during long exposures by our team member R. P\u00f6lzl.<\/p>\n
The initial confirmation of this object was reported\u00a0by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBET 4186<\/a>). It was also communicated in\u00a0ATEL 8061<\/a>. This object can be also\u00a0found\u00a0as “PNV J01044358+0203419” or “PS15byt”. The spectrum shows a blue continuum, along with strong Balmer emission lines including H-alpha and H-beta, confirming that the object is an extragalactic nova. The\u00a0IAU also mentioned, that followup observations for this object have not yet been reported so far. A further statement of “The Astronomers\u00a0Telegram” (ATEL 8061<\/a>) is, that “The transient appears coincident with a source at 01:04:43.56 +02:03:42.0 (J2000) in the catalogue of stars in the IC 1613 field published by Udalski et al. (2001)<\/a>, who report it to be at magnitude V = 22.06 and I = 21.53. We conclude that PNV J01044358+0203419 is an extragalactic Fe II nova, and likely resides in IC 1613.”<\/p>\n Investigations of this stellar source by the TBG-group show, that the identified object could be\u00a0comparable with a planetary nebula found in 2005 by\u00a0L. Magrini\u00a0et al. which is called “IC 1613 PN2”\u00a0(link to publication<\/a>).<\/p>\n Regarding this possibility we measured independently the exact position of the nova with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR12 as well as with the astrometry-software \u201cAstrometrica\u201d. After comparing the positions of\u00a0nova and\u00a0IC 1613 PN2 we found differences of about 2-3 arc seconds between both objects.<\/p>\n Furthermore we compared the location of the nova and the PN within an image. This was possible due to a zoomable image of IC 1613, exposed with the VLT from ESO (https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso1603a\/<\/a>). This image shows the needed resolution to surely identify the nova as well as the\u00a0discovered IC 1613 PN2. For comparison with IC 1613 PN2 we took the image from the\u00a0above mentioned publication.\u00a0The listed\u00a0images showed clearly that PN and nova cannot be the same object!<\/p>\n