[vsnet-alert 10759] re Spectrum of Nova Car 2008: an Fe II classical nova

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Howard Bond informed :-

"A spectrum of the nova candidate in Carina announced by K. Malek [vsnet-alert10740] was obtained with the SMARTS 1.5m telescope on Cerro Tololo by M.Hernandez and F. Walter on 2008 Nov 30.37.  The spectrum covers the range3650-5450 A with a resolution of 4.3 A.

We confirm that the object is a classical nova, of the "Fe II" type. Thespectrum is dominated by broad emission lines of the Balmer series and of Fe II emission features.  The FWZI of H-beta is about 4000 km/s."

Lovely stuff!

Anyone know if there's there been any precision astrometry for this object yet?  Or have I not been looking around hard enough?

Cheers

John

John Greaves