Kamil focuses his effort to discoveries and following photometry of novae in the M31 galaxy in Andromeda these times. The number of novae discovered in M31 by him currently surpassed all other amateurs as well as professionals.

Thanks to his fame, Kamil has access to images captured by world-class, multi meter telescopes. It is curious that careful analysis of these images can lead to many new discoveries—tenths of previously overlooked novae was discovered also in images of M81 galaxy in Ursa Major, no matter that this galaxy is more that 4 times more distant (about 12 millions light years) than M31.

The real treasure is the following image of “fireworks” in M31 galaxy. There are 6 novae captured on single frame, 5 of which were discovered by Kamil using G2-1600 CCD camera on his 35 cm telescope. The image was processed by the median filter to eliminate large-scale galaxy background and to enhance small features in spiral arms and individual stars.

This image was captured on December 27^th 2006 by G2-1600 camera on 35 cm f/4.7 telescope. Total exposure time was 43 minutes. The brightest nova on the frame (No. 2) has 17.5 mag, the weakest one (No. 5) has 19.5 mag. Individual novae were discovered on the following days:

• No.1, 2 and 3: December 26^th 2006 (K. Hornoch)

• No. 4: December 23^rd 2006 (K. Hornoch)

• No. 5: October 25^th 2006 (K. Hornoch)

• No. 6: November 25^th 2006 (Itagaki)