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Recent CCD-Image Observations of RW Ursae Minoris

Volume 35 number 1 (2007)

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H. H. Esenoglu
M. T. Ozkan

Abstract

We find an expansion parallax for the slow nova RW Ursae Minoris. An H? image shows that the diameter of the nova shell in 1995 was 2.94 arcsecs. We derived a distance of 5,250 pc, and an absolute magnitude at maximum of -7.7 for the nova.