Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: Late optical photometric observations of the 2017 eruption with SARA-KPNO and SARA-ORM
ATel #11134; A. Kaur, D. H. Hartmann (Clemson University), Guillermo Gonzalez (BSU), M. Henze, A. Shafter (SDSU), M. J. Darnley (LJMU) (on behalf of a larger collaboration)
on 6 Jan 2018; 16:06 UT
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Credential Certification: Amanpreet Kaur (akaur@g.clemson.edu)
We report optical photometric observations of the 2017 eruption (see ATels #11116, #11117, #11118, #11121, #11124, #11125, #11126, #11133) of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a (Henze et al. 2014, 2015a, 2015b; Darnley et al. 2014, 2015, 2016). The data were obtained between 2018 Jan 05.0 UT - Jan 06.5 UT with the 0.96 m and 1.0 SARA telescopes equipped with ARC CCD camera(Keel et al. 2017, located at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (SARA-KPNO), Arizona and Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain (SARA-ORM), respectively. The derived magnitudes were calibrated with the standard stars in the field of this nova.
Optical Observations
| 2018 UT |
B mag |
Exposure |
Telescope |
| Jan 05.832 |
21.38± 0.19 |
2.4 h |
KPNO |
| Jan 06.069 |
21.39± 0.22 |
0.7 h |
ORM |
