Nova V462 Lupi

[RichardJ]

Nova V462 Lupi taken last night with my Canon 600D DSLR.
I estimated the magnitude to be 5.8.

You can find out more about it here
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/bright-nova-lights-up-lupus/

RichardJ :)

[CaptainCook]

Brilliant! I imaged this last night at 135mm & 710mm. It was exciting to look at Stellarium and see where it wasn't 😀

It peaked at 5.5 on 20th.

The updated light curve can be found here:

https://www.aavso.org/LCGv2/static.htm?DateFormat=Julian&RequestedBands=&Grid=true&view=api.delim&ident=V462 lup&fromjd=2460120&tojd=2460850.076&delimiter=@@@

[RichardJ]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for that.

Richard :)