Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: Late optical photometric observations of the 2020 eruption with SARA-KPNO and SARA-ORM
ATel #14158; M. Rajagopal (Clemson University), T. Rutherford, G. Henson (Eastern Tennesee State University; ETSU), X. Han (Butler University), W. Keel (University of Alabama), S. Anandagoda (Clemson University), A. Kaur (Pennsylvania State University), M. Ajello, D. H. Hartmann (Clemson University), M. Henze, A. Shafter (SDSU), M. J. Darnley (LJMU) (on behalf of a larger collaboration)
on 7 Nov 2020; 18:36 UT
Credential Certification: Amanpreet Kaur (auk971@psu.edu)
We report optical photometric observations of the 2020 eruption (see ATels #
14130, #
14131, #
14138, #
14140, #
14141, #
14142, #
14152) of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a (Henze et al.
2014,
2015a,
2015b; Darnley et al.
2014,
2015,
2016). The data were obtained between 2020 November 03 - 04 UT with the 0.96 m and 1.0 JKT SARA telescopes equipped with ARC CCD camera (Keel et al.
2017, located at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona and Roque de los Muchachod, La Palma, Spain, respectively. The derived magnitudes were calibrated with the standard stars in the field of this nova.
Optical Observations
| 2020 UT |
B mag |
Exposure |
Telescope |
| Nov 03 |
19.11± 0.10 |
2.5 h |
ORM |
| Nov 04 |
19.21± 0.06 |
2.0 h |
KPNO |
