For Oksanen the final confirmation came from the
Nordic Optical Telescope image posted on the Web later that day (see the images on the facing page).
In 1998 a team led by codiscoverer Igor Karachentsev (Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia) obtained far-red (I-band) images with the 2.56-meter
Nordic Optical Telescope on the island of La Palma.
The next night, teams of astronomers using the 10-meter Keck II telescope in Hawaii and the 2.6- meter
Nordic Optical Telescope in the Canary Islands independently obtained spectra of the optical transient, which had now faded to 20th magnitude.
O'Connor, John Meaburn, and Myfanwy Bryce (University of Manchester) tested the newly designed Manchester Occulting Mask Imager (MOMI) on the star with the 2.6-meter
Nordic Optical Telescope at La Palma in the Canary Islands in November 1997.
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Nordic Optical Telescope http://www.astro.lu.se/ not-images.html Ohio State Univ.
The astronomers used the 2.5-meter
Nordic Optical Telescope on the Canary Islands for six nights in April 1994.
The answer may be close at hand thanks to new views from the 2.5-meter
Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands.