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A transient in the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822 (Barnard'sGalaxy) was discovered on 2017 August 2 and is only the second classical novadiscovered in that galaxy. We conducted optical, near-ultraviolet, and X-rayfollow-up observations of the eruption, the results of which we present here.This 'very fast' nova had a peak $V$-band magnitude in the range$-7.41>M_V>-8.33$ mag, with decline times of $t_{2,V} = 8.1 \pm 0.2$ d and$t_{3,V} = 15.2 \pm 0.3$ d. The early- and late-time spectra are consistentwith an Fe II spectral class. The H$\alpha$ emission line initially has a fullwidth at half-maximum intensity of $\sim 2400$ km s$^{-1}$ - a moderately fastejecta velocity for the class. The H$\alpha$ line then narrows monotonically to$\sim1800$ km s$^{-1}$ by 70 d post-eruption. The lack of a pre-eruptioncoincident source in archival Hubble Space Telescope imaging implies that thedonor is a main sequence, or possibly subgiant, star. The relatively low peakluminosity and rapid decline hint that AT 2017fvz may be a 'faint and fast'nova.

AT 2017fvz: a nova in the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822