[vsnet-chat 400] Re: [vsnet-obs 6085] asteroid

[Fraser Farrell <fraserf@dove.net.au>]

G'day Berto,

   >when I looked at V4368 Sgr (Wakuda's star) I saw it 'double'
   >despite the fact I had only one glass of wine with my souper.

Is South African wine _that_ intoxicating? <g>

   >The object in question was about 12 arcseconds straight to the
   >North of V4368 and about 10.5 in magnitude. After my initial
   >excitement -how would you feel!- I decided to have a look again in
   >two hours time. Maybe it would turn out to be a planetoid (again),
   >as this is sky region near the ecliptic. After 2 hours indeed the
   >object at similar brigthness had moved to about 100 " straight
   >West of V. Unfortunately, it was a planetoid!

The asteroid 44 Nysa, according to GUIDE 5; at magnitude 10.7.  At least
it was near opposition and moving quickly.  Many years ago I embarrassed
myself by reporting 5 Astrea - near-stationary at quadrature - as a
nova!




cheers,
Fraser Farrell

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