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Old 10-09-2021, 12:36 PM
Rob_K
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Last night was good. The nova is now in the mag 9s and generally a star of that magnitude is out of range for me spectroscopically. But because virtually all the visible light is coming from 3 narrow emission lines (and dominated by one, H-alpha), the spectrum was still easily gettable. Effectively, the low-res spectrum is one bright dot & two fainter ones!

The nova itself is now very red, in consequence of the dominance of the H-alpha emission.

Cheers -
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