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[vsnet-obs 3533] (fwd) Nova Sgr 1996 photometry (Sostero et al.)



From SOSTERO@elettra.trieste.it Thu Aug 22 22:06:50 1996
From: SOSTERO@elettra.trieste.it
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 15:05:17 +0200 (MET-DST)
Subject: BVRI photometry of N Sgr96
To: nova@nova.la.asu.edu
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Dear colleagues,
referring to the e-mail of T.Kato (August 19, 1996; Subjet: Re-brightening of
Nova Sgr96), I would like to send you some photometry collected during the last
few weeks, and recently published on IAUC 6453 and 6454. The telescope used was 
a 0.4m reflector at Visnjan Observatory (Croatia), coupled with ST6 CCD plus
standard BVRI filters. We used as primary reference star the nearby one (almost 
1 arcmin North of the nova itself) provided by Gilmore & Kilmartin (IAUC 6443).
                            

                           "Dayly photometry"

        U.T.               V           B-V         V-R         V-I
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Aug.  9.924, 1996        11.78        +1.00       +0.86       +1.64
Aug. 10.877, 1996        12.04        +0.99       +0.85       +1.65
Aug. 12.855, 1996        12.06        +0.93       +0.82       +1.61
Aug. 13.197, 1996        11.97        +1.00       +0.80       +1.59
Aug. 14.937, 1996        11.97        +0.98       +0.79       +1.60
Aug. 15.868, 1996        11.93        +1.02       +0.85       +1.64
Aug. 16.854, 1996        11.81        +1.06       +0.79       +1.59

accuracy: +/- 0.05 magnitudes

                         

   
                          "Short term photometry"

On the nights of August 15 and 16, we made two observing runs, 3 hours long
on each night, in search for short-term brightness fluctuations of N Sgr96.
We alternatively switched the B and I filter, and our "resolution" time was in
the order of 5 minutes. For both nights, we couldn't detect any brightness
fluctuation exceeding 0.02 magnitudes from the mean magnitude of the nova at
that night. This for both B and I filters.


Best regards,
             -Giovanni Sostero-

e-mail: sostero@elettra.trieste.it