Hello from St. Martin d'Uriage

[Tony Heidemann]

My name is Tony Heidemann. I live near Grenoble (France) in a Village called St. Martin d'Uriage (SMU) at an altitude of 700 m.
The light pollution is coming from the town of Grenoble. The sky quality is at its best about 20.3 mag/s arc**2.
I have 2 small observatories in our garden: Castor and Pollux. Both are movable wooden huts. See for more details my web site
http://astrosurf.com/heidemann/
I started astronomy about 16 years ago with an old orange C8 telescope and continued later with an 15" Obsession Dobson doing visual observations.
Later I switched to Astro-Photography and very recently I started as a newbe 'spectroscopy'.
I own 2 spetroscopes: Lhires III with 600 and 2400tt/mm and an Alpy 600.
My recent move to spectroscopy was in some way triggered by the August 2013 nova and by the SN2014J supernova.

clear skies

Tony Heidemann

http://astrosurf.com/heidemann/

[Robin Leadbeater]

Welcome to the group Tony. It looks like you have made a good start in spectroscopy.
Note that on your page here
http://www.astrosurf.com/heidemann/spec ... cygni.html
P Cygni is a Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) star, not a Wolf Rayet

Best Wishes
Robin
www.threehillsobservatory.co.uk

[Tony Heidemann]

Hi Robin,

Hi Robin,

thank you for your kind words!
I will correct my page about P cygni.

clear skies

Tony

[Olivier Thizy]

Welcome Tony !

For those who do not know Tony, we live actually like 10km from each other and we meet from time to time when doing public outreach and star gazing...
Now, I have no excuse when Tony will observe and I won't - we share the same sky but also the same clouds very often... !

Cordialement,
Olivier Thizy
Vous ne verrez plus des étoiles comme avant !
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