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[vsnet-chat 3137] (fwd) Re: RX Com (Skiff)

(fwd) Re: RX Com (Skiff)

Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:03:46 -0700 (MST)
From: Brian Skiff <bas@lowell.edu>
Subject: Blue object near RX Com in USNO-A2.0

     Just on a hunch I searched a 3' radius in A2.0 from the nominal
position.  About 1'.5 away is a blue object (star?) at:
12 59 04.17  +15 12 15.3 (2000).  The A2.0 mb=17.4 and mr=17.6, so
b-r = -0.2.  I have obtained 2'x2' cutouts from the USNO-Flagstaff server:

  jpg file: http://vsnet.nofs.navy.mil/tmp/fchaajDua_se0437.000.jpg
  jpg file: http://vsnet.nofs.navy.mil/tmp/fchaajDua_so0437.000.jpg
  jpg file: http://vsnet.nofs.navy.mil/tmp/fchaajDua_sj0646.000.jpg
  jpg file: http://vsnet.nofs.navy.mil/tmp/fchaajDua_sf0646.000.jpg
  jpg file: http://vsnet.nofs.navy.mil/tmp/fchaajDua_sn0646.000.jpg


The object seems stellar on the O and J plates, and definitely bright on
these blue plates, but is possibly nonstellar on the red and far-red images
(which are somewhat less sharp naturally).  If a star, it would not be so
unusual to find an ordinary white dwarf, so perhaps this is only a
"candidate" at best.

\Brian

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