[vsnet-chat 452] Re: N:: near M 51

[Bill Dillon <bdillon@houston.geoquest.slb.com>]

Rudolf,

If this is in regard to the 14th magnitude "nova" near M51 reported
here a while back, the "nova" turned out to be a flaw in the 
"discoverers" CCD camera.  We imaged the coordinates within a
day of the first report and found nothing unusual.  When I returned
from the observatory there was an e-mail recalling the discovery
report.

Ah well, we got a nice image of M51.

Regards,

William Dillon
bdillon@houston.geoquest.slb.com
http://vsnet.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7477/


> Dear colleagues,
>
> I would like to inform you that I went through many images of M 51 on
> the Internet using some CCD astronomy discusion groups, searchers as
> altavista and check star close to M 51 which is suspected to be variable
> as an nova. The star was always faint and no image showed some
> brightening. 
        [rest of message edited out]
> Rudolf

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