[George Carey]

Remote images from Spain with poor sky show magnitude on 29th Nov to be 16.3

[George Carey]

 Thanks Rob and Jeremy,

Now confirmed as a nova: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=12245

Remote image from Spain last night gave magnitude 15.6.

[George Carey]

The Liverpool telescope has confirmed that the object is a classical nova and a member of the FeII spectroscopic class.

http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=10754

I am glad they got this done – the nova is fading fast and is almost beyond my detection.

[George Carey]

Using a remote telescope in Spain I got 6×120 seconds of fairly reasonable images.

Magnitude estimate 16.66

[George Carey]

I have been lucky so far and have obtained images each night since the discovery – sadly tonight has 0% chance. I think the nova will be reaching maximum about now (pure guesswork). On Saturday it looked like clouds would prevail so I tried the remote telescopes in Spain but the images were awful – poor focus and tracking. They refunded the units used so I might try again tonight.

[George Carey]

Thanks Robin. I am amazed that the skyglow, pollution etc has such a huge component. I would have thought with a 2m mirror there would be bags of data from the nova. The Matt Darnley of the Liverpool telescope indicated that they would have a go at the nova as well. We wait and see…

[George Carey]

I used Maxim to simply draw a profile. Would I be right that the main line on the left is hydrogen?

http://geoastro.co.uk/september2017/nova%20spectrum.jpg

(For some reason I could not attach the image.)

[George Carey]

More accurate measurements of the nova give a magnitude of 16.6 for 11pm last night.

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