Hi all! Fran, thanks for your comment. Very nice echelle spectrum Tim! I can confirm the extremely high brightness of the nova. Yesterday I measured V mag 9.15 at ~ 21 UT. Even with 1200 l/mm grating, the continuum is very intense and shows clearly the telluric lines in the H-alpha region (removed in the plots below).
Absolute flux calibration is obtained by rescaling the continuum to a low-res fluxed spectrum taken by Umberto (Alpy 600) at the same time.
H-alpha P-cyg profile changed again. The double absorption minimum seems gone. The heliocentric velocity of minimum is ~ -305 Km/s. The same measurement for Si II doublet return ~ -220 Km/s. Fe II 6456 Rv is ~ -235 Km/s.
Prof. Taichi Kato (who is looking at ARAS spectra, ref. VSNET ml), talks about a similarity of ASASSN-17hx evolution with the old nova V723 Cas.
Paolo