The day before discovering V1935 Cen, John Seach discovered a nova in Sagittarius, on September 21. It was also discovered independently by two observers in Japan, as described in AAVSO alert notice 907.
V7994 Sgr has so far peaked at around magnitude 6.7 with a pre-outburst magnitude of less than magnitude 23 within a couple of days!
I made a visual estimate of the nova of 6.9 just before 11:30pm last night (September 26), Adelaide time (ACST) with 15×70 binoculars, using 7.1 and 6.8 magnitude comparison stars for reference.
The images above were taken with my Seestar S50 at around 8:30pm, the first resulting from additive stacking of 59 images on the S50. The second shows the nova in cross hairs after further processing and median stacking in Tycho Tracker. Sagittarius is a busy part of the sky!
V7994 Sgr is located near the boundary of Scorpius and Sagittarius, near the “stinger” of the scorpion.
The AAVSO finder chart below must be rotated at least 90 degrees clockwise to match the field above.
So far, as of September 27, 41 observations have been submitted to AAVSO, 19 of which are visual estimates (via telescope or binoculars) shown here (black), with my observation in cross hairs. A couple of observations from imaging devices are also included (green).
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