[vsnet-chat 5333] Re: (fwd) R Cas and Comet Ikeya-Zhang

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 09:01:22 -0300 (ART)
From: <costeira1@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [vsnet-chat 5332] Re: (fwd) R Cas and Comet Ikeya-Zhang

 --- Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> escreveu: > Re: (fwd)
R Cas and Comet Ikeya-Zhang
> 
> >      Is this not caused by the extreme red color of R Cas in the 
> > unfiltered CCD?  Or am I missing something here?  The star is 
> > R ~5.5 when V is ~10 (see Kornilov et al. 1991TrSht..63....4K),
> > so the observation seems to be about as expected.
> 
>    Past MISAO observations (unfiltered CCD) indeed reported mag ~5
> when
> V is ~10.  At maximum, MISAO observations reported mag around 3.
> 
>    The following description requires a further explanation.  Could
> it be
> an illusion?
> 
> >    The most intriguing point in the whole story is that Korneev
> saw
> > the star visually at first before taking CCD exposures.



     Well, friends, if this image is usual, then Korneev may take new
images using the same equipament during the next descending branch of
R Cas. 

     []s do Alex!


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