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Old 09-12-2008, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by bojan View Post
It is about 9, I would guess..
AAVSO charts have comparison stars around nova ranging from 11.5 to 8.2 (visual), so this estimate is very rough.. I will try better with what I have in CdC (Hipparcos data)

EDIT:
8.9, compared to nearby stars from Tycho_2 catalogue.
This estimate was done on stack (8 frames, in DSS) with help of Iris (Aperture photometry (3rings), magnitude constant determined as 24.03).
Did you extract just the green chanel for the estimate?
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