
Cheers
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: <Cezary.Galan@astri.uni.torun.pl>
To: "Robin Leadbeater"
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: AZCas eclipse - near to the ingress
>
> Hi Robin,
>
> Thank you for this figure. Your spectra, although not of the highest
> quality, they are very valuable as perhaps nobody else was doing
> spectroscopic observations in violet. We did not have here in Piwnice good
> enough weather to take such a spectra and we were able only get
> photometric measurements for 2 nights during ingress. Our technical staff
> still can not cope with the axes of our old (~60 yrs) Schmidt-Cassegrain
> telescope. In result we have terrible comma and very weak signal in blue
> (Although the telskop is quite large (90 cm primary mirror) it gives an
> embarrassingly poor results especially in blue range). We hope to deal
> with this and in addition to organize somewhat more instruments to collect
> spectroscopic observations in violet around egress and after it, during
> atmospheric eclipse. We have still chance to document better with spectra
> in violet, the passage of the B star behind of the dense envelope of
> matter escaping from the supergiant, during the final phase of the
> eclipse.
>
> Cheers
> Cezary