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Nova Delphini 2013 - nova Variable Stars Photometric Monitoring - Variables - RX And, FO Aql, CY Cyg, S Cyg, SS Cyg, AM Her, U Her, BL Lac, CY Lyr, DY Per, FG Sge, U Sge, V Sge, WZ Sge Astrometric Monitoring - Nearby Stars - Ross 248 (HH And), 61 Cyg
- Evening session (2.1 hrs duration). - Session operated under semi-automated control, with remote monitoring from indoors computer. - Ambient Temperature: +6 deg/C falling to +3.5 degC minimum - CCD operation -25 degC (at 73% average cooling). - main objectives of the session were to acquire images of Nova Delphinus and to acquire images selected project stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis. -
| Nova Delphini 2013 (Delphinus) Nova Delphini was discovered on 14th August 2013 by Japanese observer Koichi Itagaki at magnitude +6.8. Koichi had imaged the same field the day before and nothing was visible at the same location. The progenitor star was identified from archive images as being magnitude +16.9 The image below was taken 25 days after discovery when
nova had faded to around +7.5 |
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CCD Image (cropped) 5 x 5 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter 2013-09-08 22:19hUT (#546057-61) 12" LX200R (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME |
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CCD Image (cropped) Image details as above |
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