  Nova Delphini 2013 was identified on the 14th of August 2013 and eventually
rose to be a naked eye object. We sought to study the behaviour of the object
in the run-up to outburst and to compare it to the pre-outburst photometric
characteristics of other novae. We searched the Pan-STARRS 1 datastore to
identify pre-outburst photometry of Nova Del 2013 and identified twenty-four
observations in the 1.2 years before outburst. The progenitor of Nova Delphini
showed variability of a few tenths of a magnitude but did not brighten
significantly in comparison with archival plate photometry. We also found that
the object did not vary significantly on the approximately half hour timescale
between pairs of Pan-STARRS 1 observations.
