Multiwavelength observations of nova SMCN 2016-10a-one of the brightest novae ever observed

A part of this work is based on observations made with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), under the program 2016-1-MLT-010 and 2016-2-LSP-001. EA, DB, PAW, SM, PW gratefully acknowledge the receipt of research grants from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. We are grateful to Steve Crawford, Itumeleng Monageng, Daniel Viljoen, and Brent Miszalski for assistance with the SALT observations AK acknowledges the National Research Foundation of South Africa and the Russian Science Foundation (project no.14-50-00043). P.M. is supported by the ”Diamond Grant” No. DI2013/014743 funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The OGLE project has received funding from the National Science Center, Poland, grant MAESTRO 2014/14/A/ST9/00121 to A.U. KLP, NPMK, APB and JPO acknowledge support from the UK Space Agency. FMW acknowledges support from the US National Science Foundation, grant 1614113. Based in part on observations from the SMARTS Observatory, which is hosted by the Cerro Tololo Inter American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. We thank the SMARTS queue schedulers and observers for their efforts. Based on observations obtained at the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope, which is a joint project of the Minist´erio da Ciˆencia, Tecnologia, e Inova¸c˜ao (MCTI) da Rep´ublica Federativa do Brasil, the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and Michigan State University (MSU). VARMR acknowledges financial support from FCT in the form of an exploratory project of reference IF/00498/2015, from CIDMA strategic project UID/MAT/04106/2013 and supported by Enabling Green E-science for the Square Kilometer Array Research Infrastructure (ENGAGE SKA),