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Nova Del 2013 - Nova (V339 Del)   Variable Stars (photometric monitoring) - RX And, FO Aql, CY Cyg, S Cyg, SS Cyg, AM Her, U Her, BL Lac, CY Lyr, DY Per, FG Sge, U Sge, V Sge, WZ Sge     Nearby Stars (astrometric monitoring) - Ross 248 (HH And), 61 Cyg

- Evening session (2.1 hrs duration).  - Session operated under semi-automated control, with remote monitoring from indoors computer.   - Ambient Temperature:  +6°C falling to +3.5°C minimum - CCD operation -25°C (at 73% average cooling).   - main objectives of the session were to acquire images of Nova Delphinus and to acquire images selected project stars for ongoing photometric and astrometric analysis.  -

 Nova Del 2013 - Nova (V339 Del)

Nova Del 2013 (Delphinus) Nova Delphini was discovered on 14th August 2013 by Japanese observer Koichi Itagaki at magnitude +6.8.  Koichi had imaged the same field the day before and nothing was visible at the same location. The progenitor star was identified from archive images as being magnitude +16.9 Alias:  V339 Del The image below was taken 25 days after discovery when nova had faded to around +7.5 The Nova is the brightest object in the image.

CCD Image (cropped) 5 x 5 sec exposure (average combine), 3x3 binning, C Filter 2013-09-08 22:19hUT (#546057-61) 12" LX200R  (at f/9.7) + ST-10XME

Nova Del 2013  - 2013-09-08 (T+25d) taken 25 days after discovery when nova was at magnitude +7.5

CCD Image (cropped) Image details as above

Images of Nova Del 2013 on Novae Page >>

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