[IAUC] CBET 1911: 20090817 : NOVA OPHIUCHI 2009

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1911
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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NOVA OPHIUCHI 2009
     K. Ayani and N. Murakami, Bisei Astronomical Observatory (BAO);
K. Hata, Okayama Shoka University High School; A. Tanaka and M. Tachibana,
Okayama Sozan Senior High School; and A. Kanda, Okayama Ichinomiya Senior
High School, report that low-resolution spectra (range 450-800 nm; resolution
0.5 nm at H-alpha) of the apparent nova reported on CBET 1910 were obtained
with the BAO 1.01-m telescope on Aug. 17.6 UT, in the course of the BAO
Summer School and Japan Space Forum.  The spectra show broad and prominent
H-alpha emission, whose FWHM and equivalent width are about 8000 km/s and 49
nm, respectively, upon a red continuum.  A broad H-beta emission line also
is visible.


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2009 August 17                   (CBET 1911)              Daniel W. E. Green