opportunity to observe from Tenerife next summer

[Robin Leadbeater]

Thomas Eversberg is looking for amateur spectroscopists to join a Pro-Am campaign to observe WR stars from the IAC observatory on Tenerife next summer using a 0.8m professional telescope. Beginners are welcome as they will be supported by more experienced observers. Some members of this forum have done this in previous years. See for example
http://deltascorpii2011teideiac80.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.afrc-mons.blogspot.co.uk/

Contact Thomas if you are interested in joining the campaign, either on Tenerife or from your home observatory

Robin

----- Original Message -----
From: <tome06@web.de>
Subject: [spectro-l] ProAm campaign in 2013 - 2nd announcement - IAC80 granted


Dear spectroscopy afficionados!


I am pleased to inform you that Tony Moffat (Université de Montréal) and me have been successful with a proposal for four months (!) at Teide IAC80 telescope for an investigation of the Wolf-Rayet stars WR 134, WR 135 and WR 137 (see http://www.stsci.de/wr134/index.htm for details) in the Cygnus constellation. These observations are connected to a number of professional and amateur observations worldwide. We are now looking for volunteers to go to this world class astronomy site for two weeks, at least. At http://www.stsci.de/wr134/pdf/2nd_announcement.pdf you will find our announcement for observations on Tenerife including some first information about our campaign and the request for interested Teide observers. We will perform consecutive first-class Echelle measurements for high-quality research.


I want to take the opportunity to remind you in our 1st announcement at http://www.stsci.de/wr134/pdf/1st_announcement.pdf. It contains a request for observers from their backyard observatories anywhere in the world. If you can fulfill our technical needs in spectral resolution, S/N and exposure time don’t hesitate to join us.


I consider this as an excellent opportunity for amateurs to do real science together with professionals either at a modern astronomical observatory or from the backyard. And as for our WR 140 campaign at the Mons telescope on Tenerife in 2008/09 it is again a wonderful chance to bind the international spectroscopic amateur community together, support newbies and youngsters and bring the profound amateur knowledge to professional’s attention.


Part of the ongoing discussions will take place in the ProAm ConVento Group forum of the German VdS spectroscopy section (see http://spektroskopieforum.vdsastro.de/v ... m.php?f=32, registration is necessary). This forum is directly linked to a respective mailing list. Campaign language is English. Ask, if you need help and join us.


Cheers, Thomas

[Martin Dubs]

Hello,

I would like to inform you that the IAC 80 WR campaign at Teide has started successfully. It is still posssible to join. Have a look at
http://spektroskopieforum.vdsastro.de/v ... 3360#23360
to see what is going on there. A few other amateurs are contributing spectra to the campaign. Here an example:

comparison WR134 HeI region, eShel
red: Thierry Garrel SC14, 2400 sec
blue: IAC80, 5x600 sec

WR134_34compThierryHeI.png (11.67 KiB) Viewed 4192 times

Regards, Martin