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Originally Posted by malclocke
A bit of nova trivia - given we are now on around day 60, and that we have observed expansion velocities (if that is what they are) of around 2000 km/s, the ejecta should now have a radius of around 70 AU, almost twice the orbit of Pluto!
Using the small angle approximation (θ = D x 206265/d, where D is the size of the object and d is the distance), this figure combined with the estimated distance from the ATCA of 3.3 kpc, this gives an angular size of 0.04 arcseconds.
Anyone fancy trying direct imaging  |
LOL, even 0.04 arcminutes is still a couple of orders of magnitude too small for anything I've got!
Cheers -