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Old 16-03-2015, 10:47 PM
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New bright nova in Sagittarius

John Seach of NSW has added another nova to his growing tally, well done! This was put up on CBAT's Transient Objects Confirmation Page (TOCP) as PNV J18365700-2855420 and was quickly confirmed by the FRODOspec spectrograph on the Liverpool Telescope as a bright FeII-type classical nova.
http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unco...0-2855420.html
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=7230

Latest magnitude quoted was 5.3 (by K Itagaki) which is in naked-eye territory! Cloudy here but will try for a shot over the next few days.

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Old 17-03-2015, 09:37 PM
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Nova Sgr 2015 No. 2

Hi All

Between clouds I was able to visually observe the nova at mag 6.0 on March 16.75UT.

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Old 22-03-2015, 04:29 AM
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Very easy to spot in the finder scope. It's in a clear field, at least visually. 45 x 30 secs with the 8" F4, slightly cropped.
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Old 22-03-2015, 06:14 PM
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Great shot Kevin. Going to put this one on the observing list.
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