Reply To: Nova Tauri 2026 [Posted 20260808]

Two more Astronomer’s Telegrams give updates on Nova Tau 2026 observations, see ATel#17970 and ATel#17972.
One gives details of the spectral evolution and confirms Robin’s results very nicely. Robin’s spectrum on 13th August coincided exactly with the almost featureless spectrum shown!!! Bad luck or what…
I was lucky to get spectra on 12th, 14th and 16th as the emission lines started to develop.
By the way…whatever happened to 2SPOT???. Some remote spectroscopy would be very useful given it’s cloudy here for the next few days.
Mike.