Best Red Star???

[Liz]

Many thanks Enchilada ......

[ngcles]

Hi All,

Interestingly, the VLT crowd seem to be monitoring all this chat on IIS about R Leporis and carbon stars etc and decided to take a look at R Leporis for themselves -- with a 100m synthesized aperture ...

See: http://www.spaceref.com:80/news/viewpr.html?pid=27586


Best,

Les D

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by ngcles

Hi All,

Interestingly, the VLT crowd seem to be monitoring all this chat on IIS about R Leporis and carbon stars etc and decided to take a look at R Leporis for themselves -- with a 100m synthesized aperture ...

See: http://www.spaceref.com:80/news/viewpr.html?pid=27586


Best,

Les D

Thanks for posting the link Les.

Most interesting article and image.

Regards
Trevor

[theodog (Jeff)]

Hi All,
Finally managed to find R Lep and take a spectra.
8x5sec exp -darks Med combined.
Callibrated using same method as B Car in spectroscopy thread in the Astronomy Science thread.

Hopefully it's right.
Comments?

Now onto X TrA.

[Enchilada]

Originally Posted by theodog

Now onto X TrA

Can't wait!

[theodog (Jeff)]

Just finished X TrA.
Same process as last night with R Lep.
I have tried to match their spectra in the attached image.

[pgc hunter]

Originally Posted by Enchilada

X TrA / EsB 422 is the only one for me!

It is positioned in Triangulum Australe at 15h 14.3m -70 15.

B-V =3.62 is a real killer for this deep red carbon star.

A pretty southern baby and a must see!

Et tu. Brute!
I Scored 100 posts !!

I just had a look at this one, but it was more orange than red, the colour is reminiscent of the Eta Carina. I'd say DY Crucis is much "redder" actually.

Downloaded a couple of lists so I'm gonna make use of this full moon period by checking these red stars out.