From drodrig@globalmail.net Mon Aug 3 19:41 JST 1998 From: "Diego Rodriguez" <drodrig@globalmail.net> To: <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Cc: "Yamaoka Hitoshi" <yamaoka@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp>, <vsnet-alert@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Subject: RV: Re: [vsnet 1499] Larry Robinson's SN1998dh image Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:38:15 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 *************************************************** hello All. I took several images( August 2.99) of Sn1998dh +CCD V filter, mag 14.15 Reference Star GSC 580774 mag 12.9 Diego Rodriguez Madrid Spain drodrig@globalmail.net M1 Group ********************************** >Dear SN watchers, > >Larry Robinson wrote: > >> Object Date U.T. R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Observer >>SN1998dh 1998 08 02.26876 23 14 37.23 +04 32 19.5 13.2 V Sunflower >>Observ > >This magnitude is quite brighter than other estimates. He wrote he >have used Astrometrica and USNO-SA as reference stars, but it is >uncertain which stars are choosed as a photometry reference. > >I have seen the image >(http://ftp.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/SNe/sn1998dh/robinson.jpg) >which seems to me that SN 1998dh was about 14.0 mag or so, comparing >with 1306 and 1456 stars (USNO-A1.0). > >Is this a problem of reference stars or of a software? > >Sincerely Yours, >Hitoshi Yamaoka, Kyushu Univ., Japan >yamaoka@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp