Images taken in 1.3" seeing show that a claimed hibernating nova, Candidate 5 shown in a Sky & Telescope Newswire item, is found to be a visual binary, with a 1.1" separation between components. Spectra reveal the components to be emission-line M0 and K7 stars.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9706273,
title = {The Status of Nova Orionis 1667},
author = {F. A. Ringwald and T. Naylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9706273},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
4 pages, LaTeX, including 2 Encapsulated PostScript figures, requires l-aa.sty and epsf; A&A, accepted