Hello all carbon star admirers.
Would you like a little bit of special news?
It turns out that Case 32 (GSC 04015-00768) is the faintest star yours truly has ever observed!
Over on
www.cloudynights.com
one of the best imagers in the business Steve Smith from Colorado has produced a spectacular image of Case 32 on the Scientific Amateur Astronomy forum.
He has given an estimated magnitude of +13.4 for this extremely faint carbon star.
My previous faintest star was magnitude 13.2. That star was another carbon called Case 717 in Andromeda.
So it's celebrations all round!
Aubrey.
And I have also found out what NSV stands for from another contributor on Cloudy Nights: New Suspect Variable catalogue.
