[vsnet-alert 10760] Re: re Spectrum of Nova Car 2008: an Fe II classical nova

[Arne Henden]

Hi John,
Nope - we have spectra, but no coordinates!  I'm sure this oversight
will be corrected sometime soon.
Arne

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:23 PM,  <bydra at safe-mail.net> wrote:
> 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."
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> 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?
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> Cheers
>
> John
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> John Greaves
>