[vsnet-chat 5270] Re: V838 Mon

[Thom Gandet <tgandet@mindspring.com>]

Wow, what an image!  Has V838 gotten bluer or redder since the (last)
maximum?  Is the thinking now that the progenitor was a red giant that
is now sloughing of a (more to come?) shell?

Thanks for the wonderful image.

Thom

aah@nofs.navy.mil wrote:
> 
> Now that V838 Mon has faded a bit in the blue, the nebular shell
> surrounding it (cf IAUC 7859) is becoming more visible.
> I can see it easily in a 10-second B filter image with
> the 1.0m. You need good seeing, however, as the shell itself
> is only 27arcsec across.  The U-band image from last
> night, to get you oriented, is at:
> http://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/aah/temp/020327.jpg
> (about 5x5arcmin, north up, east left)
> Arne

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