Burnt the midnight oil tonight with work. Once done and stumbling over the kids skate-bloody-boards in the dark at 4:30 in the morning, I looked up and the clouds just parted to give me a lovely first look of the nova. How cool! Ha, my first nova,
. Easy to make out from my home in Sydney too.
While its been a poor year at the scope, I did manage a number of firsts over the last 18 months - my first comet (Lemmon) since Halley's (yeah, bring up McNaught and I'll break your arm!
), my first supernova (in NGC 1365), and the fainter members of the Trapesium in Orion all the way to Trap i !!! Not too bad a year all the same,
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