[vsnet-id 194] Re: Which is V503 Her? (from Samus)

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

Re: Which is V503 Her? (from Samus)

   Thanks to all who have replied.  I have been relieved to hear the
identity.  This star is one of "my old friends", and I tried to discriminate
which candidate is the symbiotic variable by chance spectroscopy.
The brighter = the true V503 Her = ROTSE variable star indeed showed
emission lines.  Symbiotic star observers should pay special attention,
since conventional chart drawing programs quite easily locate V503 Her
at the fainter GSC position; this identification has been taken over
by visual observers, since all available reports to VSNET showed V503 Her
fainter than 13.5, not 12-th mag for the true variable!

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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