PN confirmation at Calern observatory

[Olivier GARDE]

At Calern observatory (close to Nice in southern France) to confirm planetary nebulae with the PNST team : Pascal Le Dû, Bertrand Guégan, Pierre Dubreuil and me.



We have 7 nights to do some spectroscopy on PN candidates with a one meter telescope (104 cm in diameter).

We install a LISA spectrograph with a 50 µm slit. No autoguiding necessary for this great setup.



A view of the control room



And our first confirmation of this campaign on a very weak target (we didn't see the target in the spectrograph slit)



More information about planetary nebulae confirmation :
http://planetarynebulae.net

[Olivier GARDE]

Some results obtained last night at Calern observatory :

A new PN confirmed



The discovery of a new type O star



Bertrand and Pierre work on the 2nd prototype of the UVEX III

[etienne bertrand]

Bravo pour les spectres !

[Olivier GARDE]

One more PN confirmation with this large candidate