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Old 03-05-2008, 09:03 PM
bird (Anthony Wesley)
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Originally Posted by badchap View Post
Naked eye ?

I think the last supervnova visible to the naked eye was 1987A - in 1987, in the neighbouring Large Magellanic Cloud. Plenty of people must surely have seen that one. (I didn't)
Yep, saw that one, not particularly bright to the naked eye, but then it was a rather long way off :-)

cheers, Bird
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