In case anyone's interested, I took more data on the nova that was found late last month and found it's now down from a high of about 9.0 when I started daily imaging on the 30th to about 10.25 tonight (that's with a red filter). And speaking of imaging tonight this has got to be one of the better nights in a while. Seeing is very transparent and steady, temperature is staying very constant (it's dropped less than 1 degree in the past 4 hours) and the stars are tiny and well defined. I seem to remember that David R is currently in southern Utah to do some imaging. If he's out tonight (Are you David?) he's probably getting some great shots. patrick
Patrick, I want to do a blog about it, but I'm waiting a couple of days while I'm doing some Christmas-type tasks. WHenever you'd like to send me pics, I'll be overjoyed to get them. Thanks, Joe --- On Tue, 12/15/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Nova now ~ 10.25 To: "utah astronomy utah astronomy listserve" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 2:23 AM In case anyone's interested, I took more data on the nova that was found late last month and found it's now down from a high of about 9.0 when I started daily imaging on the 30th to about 10.25 tonight (that's with a red filter). And speaking of imaging tonight this has got to be one of the better nights in a while. Seeing is very transparent and steady, temperature is staying very constant (it's dropped less than 1 degree in the past 4 hours) and the stars are tiny and well defined. I seem to remember that David R is currently in southern Utah to do some imaging. If he's out tonight (Are you David?) he's probably getting some great shots. patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
Hi Joe, I've uploaded the first picture I got (taken on the 30th) and the one I got last night. You're welcome to use them but I think you'll see that while they measure more than a full magnitude different they don't look all that different. Maybe best to wait until the visual difference is more obvious. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/NOVA2009NOV30.JPG http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/NOVA2009DEC15.JPG patrick On 15 Dec 2009, at 19:47, Joe Bauman wrote:
Patrick, I want to do a blog about it, but I'm waiting a couple of days while I'm doing some Christmas-type tasks. WHenever you'd like to send me pics, I'll be overjoyed to get them. Thanks, Joe
--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Nova now ~ 10.25 To: "utah astronomy utah astronomy listserve" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 2:23 AM
In case anyone's interested, I took more data on the nova that was found late last month and found it's now down from a high of about 9.0 when I started daily imaging on the 30th to about 10.25 tonight (that's with a red filter).
And speaking of imaging tonight this has got to be one of the better nights in a while. Seeing is very transparent and steady, temperature is staying very constant (it's dropped less than 1 degree in the past 4 hours) and the stars are tiny and well defined.
I seem to remember that David R is currently in southern Utah to do some imaging. If he's out tonight (Are you David?) he's probably getting some great shots.
patrick
Will do! Maybe the best pair of pictures would be one from a sky survey plus your brightest, so that people can see that the nova flared up. Then the rest of the article can be about your making the measurements, and how the nova has faded. Does that make sense? Thanks, Joe PS: A few more days' wait would be welcome for me too. It's the crazy time of the year and I'm bogged down with a problem involving Vista vs. XP. But I think I've got it solved. --- On Tue, 12/15/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Nova now ~ 10.25 To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 11:44 PM Hi Joe, I've uploaded the first picture I got (taken on the 30th) and the one I got last night. You're welcome to use them but I think you'll see that while they measure more than a full magnitude different they don't look all that different. Maybe best to wait until the visual difference is more obvious. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/NOVA2009NOV30.JPG http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/NOVA2009DEC15.JPG patrick On 15 Dec 2009, at 19:47, Joe Bauman wrote:
Patrick, I want to do a blog about it, but I'm waiting a couple of days while I'm doing some Christmas-type tasks. WHenever you'd like to send me pics, I'll be overjoyed to get them. Thanks, Joe
--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Nova now ~ 10.25 To: "utah astronomy utah astronomy listserve" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 2:23 AM
In case anyone's interested, I took more data on the nova that was found late last month and found it's now down from a high of about 9.0 when I started daily imaging on the 30th to about 10.25 tonight (that's with a red filter).
And speaking of imaging tonight this has got to be one of the better nights in a while. Seeing is very transparent and steady, temperature is staying very constant (it's dropped less than 1 degree in the past 4 hours) and the stars are tiny and well defined.
I seem to remember that David R is currently in southern Utah to do some imaging. If he's out tonight (Are you David?) he's probably getting some great shots.
patrick
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On 16 Dec 2009, at 01:24, Joe Bauman wrote:
Will do! Maybe the best pair of pictures would be one from a sky survey plus your brightest, so that people can see that the nova flared up. Then the rest of the article can be about your making the measurements, and how the nova has faded. Does that make sense?
Yes. That makes sense. You can get a survey picture here: http://stdatu.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form
PS: A few more days' wait would be welcome for me too. It's the crazy time of the year and I'm bogged down with a problem involving Vista vs. XP.
I think you know my solution to Windows problems... :) patrick
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