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I believe the close approach was June this year (2018), so we’ve missed the best of it. It is low down in Capricornus now, and dimmer than mag 16, but I might have a go if I get a really clear southern sky.
The coma looks like it has expanded significantly since last night. Still bright and quite something.
Thanks for pointing out this object. I have been wanting to have a look – and get a low res spectrum with my StarAnalyser – but cloud has been rolling in from the sea night after night after night!
For anyone who is interested, here is a link to a new ATEL where the authors discuss photometry and spectroscopy of this transient. Not definitively a broad-lined type Ic supernova – previously, Robin raised uncertainty about this classification too.
Yes, I am sure that is right! It will be interesting to see what happens. There was a suggestion of spectroscopy in the article too, wasn’t there? As well as giving people a peek through the scopes at bright targets, I think the operators should deploy the latest EAA software for showing essentially-live pics to a wider audience. Lucky imaging of planets and near-live imaging of asteroids, comets, globulars etc is possible even from that location. I know from my interactions with the public that people are amazed by what’s possible now with the right hardware and software.
This object has gone ‘mainstream’, with articles in New Scientist (and the Daily Mail). The New Scientist article has a floating cow superimposed on a star field, in reference to the transient ID.
An excellent image Peter – seems fitting that there should be one of the sun posted up here at the summer solstice. And there are a few active regions visible on the sun too, which is a bonus.
Thanks Robin. I didn’t know that a CV in outburst has that spectral appearance. Hopefully with further work things will get cleared up as much as possible.
Very nice. In the medium term I think I’ll look at buying a short focal length refractor. It is lovely to have a wide field of view.
In addition to the maximum stacked image on my member’s page, I have created a short video from the same frames. It runs at 5fps. https://1drv.ms/u/s!Agvxu8wNOxpAcskxKKX5lQZyCh4
V392 Per is noticeably dimmer than the nearby TYC star now. Here’s an image from this eve (13 May) – UV/IR block only. Time in filename is UT. I have measured the mag as 9.8 (CV).
I am perhaps extending this frivolous sidetrack beyond its natural life … notwithstanding this, the New Scientist for a long time ran letters on nominative determinism in its Feedback section. Weedon and Splatt published lots of urology research.
I took some frames through the StarAnalyser 100 this evening. I’m pleased to see that my spectrum looks very like yours – the expert’s – but of course mine is lower res. The Halpha emission was indeed striking in the images!
Thanks Robin. Hopefully the nova will remain bright enough till the weekend for me to deploy my C8 + StarAnalyser on it. I was a bit tired yesterday to attempt some low res spectroscopy. Your stuff looks great – I look forward to seeing how the spectrum evolves.
