[vsnet-alert 977] Spectroscopy of possible Nova Sco

[Ayani Kazuya <ayani@bao.go.jp>]

Dear colleages,

M. Fujii (Amateur astronomer, Okayama, Japan) and H. Kawakita (Amateur
astronomer, Osaka, Japan) informed me that they had carried out
spectroscopic observation of possible nova in Scopius at June 7.6 UT
with a hand-made spectrograph mounted on the 0.28m Schmidt Cassegrain
telescope.  The width and length of the slit correspond to 7 arcsec
and 424 arcsec, respectively, and the spectral resolution was 1.2 nm.

Strong and broad emission lines of H-alpha (observed FWHM ~ 3200 km/s)
and H-beta were found in their spectra, while the instrumental
resolution was 550 km/s.  I believe that it is indeed a nova.

Best regards,
Kazuya Ayani
Bisei Astronomical Observatory

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