Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Sat, 02/11/2017 - 01:56

AAVSO Alert Notice 567 announces an observing campaign on the southern (-52o) recurrent nova IM Nor running now through 20 February 2017. Please see the notice for details and observing instructions. Please post comments on this campaign to this thread on the Campaigns and Observations Reports forum.

Many thanks, and good observing,

Elizabeth Waagen, AAVSO HQ

Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
IM Nor

Hi Elizabeth 

In Alert Notice 567  IM Nor is decribed as a symbiotic recurrent nova. In VSX the orbital P is given as 0.102d. As symbiotic novae contain giant secondaries, how would the short P(orb) be possible ?

Best regards,

Steve