Greetings, all... Took advantage of a lull (!) in the Leonids to secure another observation of SN1999em. Observer: Geoff Chester Location: Middleburg, Virginia, USA (38.98N, 77.70W) Instrument: 20-cm f/6 Newtonian, 15mm Panoptic eyepiece with 2.5x Barlow lens, 203X Naked-eye limiting magnitude at SN's location in sky: 5.7 Observation time: 991118.29 Estimated visual magnitude: 13.6, +/- 0.1 Sequence: Arne Henden's sequence, cf. vsnet-chat 2384 Cheers, Geoff +===========================================================+ | Geoff Chester grc@usno.navy.mil Public Affairs Office | | http://vsnet.usno.navy.mil US Naval Observatory | | (202) 762-1438 3450 Massachusetts Avenue, NW | | (202) 762-1489 (FAX) Washington, DC 20392 | |-----------------------------------------------------------| | "Each passing hour brings the Solar System 43,000 miles | | closer to the globular cluster M13 in Hercules; yet there | | are still some misfits who insist there's no such thing | | as progress!" -- Ransom K. Fern | +===========================================================+