The AAVSO reported a new galatic nova - AAVSO 1811-30N Sgr 05#2 - that currently is last reported on July 7 (J.D. 3559) bewteen mags 8.1 - 8.4. The nova is located between del and gam Sgr, the top of the spout of Sgr. Like Comet 9P, this nova low to the horizon around midnight and may suffer from high extinction at our 41N latitude. But this nova is bright enough to warrant taking a look see. AAVSO 1811-30N Sgr 05#2 is at - R.A. = 18h 17m 50.77s Decl. = -30o 26' 31.2" (equinox 2000.0) Nearby reference stars - del Sgr v2.7 J 18 20 59.64 -29 49 41.2 gam Sgr v2.9 J 18 05 48.49 -30 25 26.7 AAVSO Notice on AAVSO 1811-30N Sgr 05#2 - http://www.aavso.org/publications/alerts/alert320.shtml AAVSO detail chart (object is at center of chart) http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/shrinkwrap.pl?path=/charts/SGR/NSGR05_2/NSGR05_... Light-curve (link at bottom of) http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/searchcharts3.pl?name=n%20sgr%2005%232 Enjoy - Canopus56 (Kurt) P.S. - You may have to chart this one in your planetarium program to find it and to orient the AAVSO detail chart. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
--- Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote: [snip all] A general AAVSO constellation chart for Sgr. http://www.aavso.org/charts/Constellation/SGR.GIF This chart gives a rough idea of the location of nova AAVSO 1811-30N Sgr 05#2. AAVSO V4074 are on both this constellation chart and on the detail AAVSO chart for AAVSO 1811-30N Sgr 05#2. http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/shrinkwrap.pl?path=/charts/SGR/NSGR05_2/NSGR05_... - Canopus56 (Kurt) ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions  no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Kurt, I couldn't tell what was a nova and what was a regular star. I took a view in the general vicinity but don't know if the Nova shows. If I sent it to you, could you take a look? thanks, Joe
--- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Kurt, I couldn't tell what was a nova and what was a regular star. . . . If I sent it [my photo] to you, could you take a look? thanks, Joe
I had problems matching up the AAVSO 1° detail chart at - http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/shrinkwrap.pl?path=/charts/SGR/NSGR05_2/NSGR05_... with a direct view star field. I prepared a 2° wide finder chart for star hopping from del Sgr - http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/finder/Nsgr052.gif Most of the stars plotted on the AAVSO 1° detail chart are plotted on this wide-field chart inorder to orient the AAVSO detail chart to the eyepiece. HD or Tycho numbers are listed. One star, HD167616 (v9.6), is on the 2° degree finder chart but is not plotted on the AAVSO detailed finder chart. Joe, please go ahead and send me your photo at my 1 megabyte attachment size limited email account at: fisherka@csolutions.net Please send the jpg, but if you also have the time, it's not too much trouble and your SBIG camera software has a "save to FITS" option, also send a FITS file. I'll see if I can line it up and plot a chart field over image. I'll also need either the center point and the rotation of the photo (either north or west) or the id on two stars in the FOV. - Enjoy - Canopus56(Kurt) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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