[vsnet-obs 14967] (fwd) Re: On M32 nova (McGaha)

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

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Taichi Kato wrote:

> (fwd) On nova in M32 (Beam)
>
>   Bill Beam's message:
>
> >From wbeam@ptialaska.net Fri Sep 11 18:38 JST 1998
> From: "Bill Beam" <wbeam@ptialaska.net>
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 01:37:16 -0800
>
> Taichi,
> Marko,
>
> Here is my image of M92.  Marko Moilanen's suspect nova is
> at the SSW edge of the gx core.  North is up and East is left.
> This object is not appearant in The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies.
>
> Telescope:  AstroPhysics 180mm f/9.
> Camera:  Cookbook CB245.
> Guiding:  ST4 on Vernonscope 94mm f/7.
>
> Images:  30 exposures of 120 sec.
> Time of exposures:  1999-09-11 0618-0751 UTC.
>
> I estimate magnitude at 17.9 compared to
>      GSC2801-2023 at mag 13.1
>                          2034 at mag 13.2
>                          2082 at mag 12.4
> however this estimate is suspect due to the glare
> of the gx core.
>
> Regards, Bill
>
> Bill Beam/NL7F
> wbeam@ptialaska.net
>
> ---
>
> The image is placed at:
>
>   http://ftp.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/Novae/m32_1998/beamm32.gif

   Last time I looked M92 was a globular cluster.
Also, I would be very careful doing photometry through a
refractor. IR does not focus at same position as visible light.

James McGaha
Grasslands Obs.

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