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NOVA CYG 2014

A newly-discovered star of magnitude 10.9 has flared in the constellation Cygnus the Swan. Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima, both of Japan, made their discovery March 31 2014.

With that discovery, I chose this novae as my first nova/supernova spectroscopic project.  The novas official designation is PNV J20214234+3103296.  Using the C-14 telescope, LHIRES III spectrograph, and ST-8XME CCD camera.  I imaged each night, hoping to measure an increased or decreased output of various emission wavelengths .

In the wide field image below you can see how dense the star field is.  I use this field of view to find the target and move the telescope to have the target visible in the spectrograph guiding camera .  Then I center the target on the slit of the spectrograph with the guiding camera and collect the spectra with the imaging camera.
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Below is one night of imaging.  A total of 12 images, 600 seconds long were processed, combine, and, calibrated to obtain the final graph. The strong emission lines of Ha=hydrogen alpha, NA=sodium , OI - (common in Fe novae), and O=Oxygen are visible.  Below the graph is the combined raw spectra images as the camera sees it. Then the emission and absorption lines of the entire range. As I process the additional nights of data collection I will update the page to show the changes in the novas output. Hopefully I will learn how to understand the results.

 

 

PNV J20214234+3103296

V2659 Cyg

Nova Cyg 2014

  • TYPE: Nova
  • SPECTRAL TYPE: pec(Nova)
  • RA: 20h 21' 42.324"
  • DEC:  +31 03 29.4 degrees
  • VISUAL MAGNITUDE:  9.5
  • CONSTELLATION: Cygnus
  • DISTANCE:

IMAGING INFORMATION

  • TELESCOPE: Celestron C-14 Schmidt-Cassigrain reflector, on a Celestron fork mount
  • REDUCER/CORRECTOR:  None
  • CAMERA: SGIG ST-8XME
  • SPECTROGRAPH:  Lhires III
  • FILTER(S):  None
  • CCD COOLING TEMPERATURE:  -20 C
  • BINNING/RESOLUTION: 1 X 4 (1530 X 255)
  • EXPOSURE TIME:  600 seconds.
  • NUMBER OF IMAGES:  12
  • DATE/TIME:  2014-06-29 / 06:45:40 UTC
  • LOCATION:  Valley Center, California
  • TEMPERATURE:  Unknown
  • HUMIDITY:  Unknown

 

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