[vsnet-chat 4010] Re: QX Pup

[Seiichiro Kiyota <skiyota@abr.affrc.go.jp>]

In message "[vsnet-chat 4004] Re: QX Pup",aah@nofs.navy.mil wrote...
 >To be strictly accurate (and less confusing!), QX Pup
 >is the embedded, invisible Mira inside of the
 >bipolar nebula OH 231.8+4.2.

Yes.
I don't understand yet that star like images accompany with OH 231.8+4.2 on CCD images are QX Pup (Mira variable star) 
itself or bright part of planetary nebular.

I read following apaper.

Direct Detection of the Mira at the Heart of OH 231.8+4.2 
Kastner, Joel H.; Weintraub, David A.; Merrill, K. M.; Gatley, Ian 
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 116, Issue 3, pp. 1412-1418. 


                           Seiichiro Kiyota



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