Call for observation for a new variable star

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Olivier GARDE
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Call for observation for a new variable star

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Matthieu Conjat has found a variable in his images that is not listed as a "variable star".
You can have a look on his post on this forum (sorry in French only) but you can see an animation on this variable target :
http://www.astrosurf.com/topic/133277-v ... -dans-m81/

The coordinates of this very faint target (around mag 15,9) are :
alpha 09 56 13.83
delta +68 57 24.05

Low resolution spectra are welcome to identify this target and you can post yours result here in the aras forum.
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Re: Call for observation for a new variable star

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It looks similar in timescale and magnitude change to these kind of events
http://www.threehillsobservatory.co.uk/ ... ra_42a.htm
https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/3456 ... cond-flare

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Re: Call for observation for a new variable star

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Certainly looks similar Robin, it is too faint for my slitless system. I assume you will try for a spectrum.
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Re: Call for observation for a new variable star

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Andrew Smith wrote: I assume you will try for a spectrum.
If I ever get to see the stars again ! With this weather I have only observed on 6 nights so far this year and I think only none with conditions good enough for faint objects like this :(
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Re: Call for observation for a new variable star

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Robin Leadbeater wrote:
Andrew Smith wrote: I assume you will try for a spectrum.
If I ever get to see the stars again ! With this weather I have only observed on 6 nights so far this year and I think only none with conditions good enough for faint objects like this :(
Yes that's why I decided to take the rig to Pixelskies in Castillejar! I got 15 full nights in Jan and 19 in Feb :)
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Re: Call for observation for a new variable star

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An extremely noisy (SNR~3 :o ) ALPY 600 spectrum last night suggests an M type star (M3?)

Red - Pickles M3v
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Re: Call for observation for a new variable star

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Well done on such a faint star Robin, even with that SN ratio it looks fairly conclusive.
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Re: Call for observation for a new variable star

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Thanks Andrew,

It was much harder than I expected. I recorded SN 2020ue at mag 14.5 and higher air mass the same night and got an SNR of ~30 so at mag 16 I expected an SNR of ~15. Either it is a fair bit fainter than that or the bright moonlight had a greater effect.

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Re: Call for observation for a new variable star

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OK I see on the astrosurf forum it has been remeasured at V mag 17 (though brighter in the red) so this is the faintest object I have recorded with the ALPY in its standard configuration.

Olivier, can you post a link to my spectrum in the astrosurf thread ?

Here is the guider image
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Re: Call for observation for a new variable star

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Robin Leadbeater wrote:Olivier, can you post a link to my spectrum in the astrosurf thread ?
Robin,

I dit it.
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