SDSS J0804+51 outburst - animation and spectrum

Originally Posted by Robin Leadbeater

I have just added a new page to the website for last nights observations of
this new Cataclismic Variable which was spotted on 4th March as having
brightened about 5 magnitudes to around mag 13.
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/...spectra_26.htm
Look out too for the high proper motion star in the bottom right of the
animation, which has moved a few arcsec since the Palomar survey plates were
taken in the 1950s
Robin

Nice one Robin - what does the spectrum reveal?

Nytecam