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>From: "Giovanni Sostero" <giovanni.sostero@elettra.trieste.it> Subject: Nova patrol Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 14:48:01 +0100 ... since May 2002 I'm conducting a photographic nova patrol along the Milky Way by means of a small teleobjective and TMAX400 film. Usually the limiting magnitude I reach is close to 12. The weather here is not OK, so I just accumulated almost 30 nights of observation, up to now, mostly concentrated in the northern part of the Galaxy. One big trouble for me is the checking procedure of the negatives: I inspect them through a kind of homemade blink comparator, but it takes quite a lot of time for each field to be scanned: e.g. I made some fields of Sgr through Cep last Friday morning, but I still have to finish their inspection! Very likely in these negatives there are no novae at all, but may be yes. I'm very intrigued about this point, knowing that the earlieast phases of a nova explosion are the most valuables for their astrophysicics understanding. Can you give me some advices about how to speed up this phase? Do you know if there is any other method employed by amateurs that could be more effective and less time consuming? Thank you in advance for your patience! With kindest regards, Giovanni Sostero (Remanzacco Observatory, Italy)
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