Hα spectrum of VV Cephei - HD 208816 - SAO 19753 [M2epIa-Iab + B8:eV]

VV Cephei

VV Cephei is an eclipsing binary star system with a M2 and a B8 star

The emission lines are caused by a disk around the B star, probable an accretion disk with material feeded by the supergiant M star.

There is a campaign throug the next eclipse 2017 to 2019. More information about this:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015SASS...34...83H

VV Cep
Telescope: Celestron C11 11" SC, f/10, d=280mm Spectra with 2400 lines/mm, processed with BASS project Download spectrum DAT:  vvCep_20151105.DAT
Spectrograph: Lhires III, 2400gr, slit 23u Ha calibrated with internal Ne lamp, normalized flux Download spectrum 1D FIT: vvCep_20151105_1D.FIT
Camera: SBIG ST10-Xe Exposure time: 12  x 300s.  
Resolution: 0.09 Å / pixel, resolving power = 17000 Dark corrected, cropped, enlarged by factor 4 and stacked with PixInsight Download BASS project bundle: vvCep_20151105.bun
Acquisition software: SbigControl, Guiding with DMKguider Calibrated, RV-measure with HRV-MM2 Download complete project(1.6MB): vvCep_20151105.zip
Date: 5. November 2015,  20:41 - 21:51 UT, JD 245732.38    
VV Cephei
 
Stellar data (Wikipedio.org):
Constellation: Cepheus, RA: 21h 56m 39.1s, Dec: +63° 37′ 32.0″
v = 4.91 mag Mv = -6
 
Distance: 4900 ly, 1500 pc
Mass: A ~ 25, B ~ 20 MΘ
Radius: A ~ 1600 - 1900, B ~10 RΘ
Luninosity: A ~ 200000-320000, B ~ 10000 LΘ
Surface Temperature: A: ~3800, B: ~25000 K