Dr Steavenson using the 6 inch Cooke refractor of the Observatory of the Hampstead Scientific Society showed a light curve of Nova Hercules, and during March 1935 there was a steady fall to a minimum mag of 5.0 on March 21st There then was a marked recovery to mag 3.9 by March 25th.
This nova was catalogued as DQ Hercules and was discovered by JPM Prentice on the 13th December 1934 reaching maximum brightness of mag 1.5 on December 22nd 1934.
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