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Hi everybody,

First, I would like to say thank you to everybody that has been taking data for the campaign (spectroscopy and photometry)! We will have a wonderful dataset Please continue taking data, its greatly appreciated.

Noel and I are presently observing at Mont Mégantic Observatory. For those of you who don't know, it is a 1.6 m telescope in Québec province, Canada that is run jointly by the Université de Montréal and Université Laval in Québec city. Tonight, we got our first spectra for the campaign There is an example attached to this message.

Clear skies!
Nicole (St-Louis)

Hi Nicole, very good to know that OMM no started. For curiosity: What's the exposure time and S/N?

Watching down to Lac Megantic now must be sad, I guess. Reminds me how good is our live...

Cheers, Thomas

Hi, Nicole,

nice spectrum , indeed, but the telescope , you use is more than the factor 5 larger then the telescope, I can use at time........Do you have pictures from this eqipment ?

cheers

berthold


First, I would like to say thank you to everybody that has been taking data for the campaign (spectroscopy and photometry)! We will have a wonderful dataset Please continue taking data, its greatly appreciated.

Noel and I are presently observing at Mont Mégantic Observatory. For those of you who don't know, it is a 1.6 m telescope in Québec province, Canada that is run jointly by the Université de Montréal and Université Laval in Québec city. Tonight, we got our first spectra for the campaign There is an example attached to this message.

Clear skies!
Nicole (St-Louis)

Berthold -

We're just happy it cleared off for tonight. We have more time from Sunday - the 28th of the month.

Here's an ipod picture of the telescope.

Hi Thomas,

The exposure time for the spectrum you are looking at is 2 mins!
and the S/N is 200 in the continuum! and probably 300 in the stronger lines. We have 3 series of 3 spectra with 2 min-exposures each spread over a period of about 5 hours

Yes, the tragedy in Lac Megantic is really sad. There will be rules that will change in the transport industry I'm sure.

Cheers
Only about 30 minutes left to observe

PS: For the next two days we have to leave the telescope for the ''Festival d'astronomie'' an event, if you remember, for the general public who can come up and look through the big 1.6 m telescope!
Nicole

Hi Berthold,

We do indeed have a bigger telescope but of course we have
such a small number of nights that we could not do a project like this one without the smaller telescopes.

And I am very impressed by the quality of the spectra obtained with the smaller telescopes!

Nicole

Hello Nicole, hello Noel,

many thanks for so fast reply and also thanks for the pictures, thus I can better fancy how are your working conditions..... nice instrument, indeed! Interesting to hear, that you need only 2 minutes for these bright spectra....great!

cheers berthold

Lovely spectrum! Note that it?s NV 4601/19 (doublet, approx.), not 4804, and CIV 5802/12 (doublet too, approx.). Can you get min 2-3 spectra for each of WR134, 135, 137 spread over time on a clear night?

Best, Tony

From: Nicole St-Louis (fg-spek-convento@vds-astro.de)
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Hi everybody,

First, I would like to say thank you to everybody that has been taking data for the campaign (spectroscopy and photometry)! We will have a wonderful dataset Please continue taking data, its greatly appreciated.

Noel and I are presently observing at Mont Mégantic Observatory. For those of you who don't know, it is a 1.6 m telescope in Québec province, Canada that is run jointly by the Université de Montréal and Université Laval in Québec city. Tonight, we got our first spectra for the campaign There is an example attached to this message.

Clear skies!
Nicole (St-Louis)

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Tony Moffat

Lovely telescope! Good thing it?s not in Chile, otherwise we?d have trouble doing WR134, 135, 137. But for WR6 through 115, Chile would be OK...

T

From: Noel Richardson (fg-spek-convento@vds-astro.de)
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 3:35 AM
To: fg-spek-convento@vds-astro.de (fg-spek-convento@vds-astro.de)
Subject: [fg-spek] Re: Mont Mégantic now on board!




Berthold -

We're just happy it cleared off for tonight. We have more time from Sunday - the 28th of the month.

Here's an ipod picture of the telescope.

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Tony Moffat

Megantic is observing again tonight! Skies are beautifully clear, and we already got each WR star twice! (We got each three times total three nights ago, but there was more of a learning curve then). I'm hoping for 4 spectra of each tonight in Quebec.

We might even get some aurora tonight...