Ian Musgrave from SA sent this along
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There is a nova bright enough to see with the unaided eye in Scopius!
Not very bright, it is about as bright as epsilon Crucis, the fifth
star in the Southern Cross, but seeing one of these exploding stars at
all with the unaided eye is something. The bad news is that you have
to get up between 2:00 am and 4:30 am to see it. To locate the nova,
look to the east in the early morning and find the bright red star
Antares , the brightest star in that part of the sky, which forms the
heart of the J shaped Scorpius, looking to the right of Antares, you
will see two bright stars, the one furthest to the right is epsilon
Scorpii, the nova is the brightest star under that.
