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Begin forwarded message: From: "miroslav" <miroslav@netcom.ca> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:29:07 -0500 Subject: [vsnet-chat 0] Re: [AAVSO-DIS] DV Pup (Big trouble) Michael Linnolt wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Linnolt" <linnolt@hawaii.edu> To: "Brian Skiff" <Brian.Skiff@lowell.edu> Cc: <aavso-discussion@informer2.cis.McMaster.CA>; <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>; "Mike Simonsen" <mikesimonsen@mindspring.com> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 3:57 PM Subject: [AAVSO-DIS] DV Pup (Big trouble) > I asked Mike Simonsen for help in making up a chart around this one, and > when he mentioned it looked like around 10-something (I measured it in > the 13's), I took a closer > look. Seems there is a lot of discrepancies here. When I pulled up Aladin > to look at a DSS1 image of the region, their search identified the Tycho > star 6547-2061-1 as DV PUP! The AAVSO V445 Pup chart identifies DV as just > SW of this Tycho star, which is where I was looking for my estimate. I did > see a 13-ish star near there (but not exactly) so I assumed that was it. > In fact the star I measured turns out to be USNOB2.0 0635-0154068 GEEZ!!! > > There may be an extremely faint object on DSS1 very close to the > exact position shown on the AAVSO chart, but the chart scale is not fine > enough to allow an absolute identification... Here we go again. > > So, what object is really DV PUP???!!! > > Mike Linnolt (LMK) If you use position as AAVSO chart "d" for V445 Pup shows you are looking on GSC 6547 1682 star below 13 mag. However Guide 8 identifies DV Pup as 6547 2061 as Arne Henden said. best wishes miroslav KMA
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