Reply To: Variable Star Section Circular for September 2026 (number 209)

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Jeremy Shears
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The spectroscopy database is not designed to take spectrum images and though digitisation is straightforward using freely available software

Here is a “quick and dirty” digitised spectrum off the jpg of the observation 2026-08-31 compared with one from the same night by Francois Teyssier from the ARAS database at much higher resolution so spline smoothed for this comparison.
For wavelength calibration I used a 4th order polynomial based on 8 identified emission lines and since I did not have a reference star for flux calibration, I rectified (flattened) the spectra.
Apart for the strength of the H alpha line which was saturated in the jpg image, the agreement looks good.

Cheers
Robin

Nice work Robin. Is that a P Cyg profile in the H_alpha line in the Tessier spectrum but not from the prism?