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Originally Posted by andyc
I don't know how common LMC novae are, so apologies if this is a run-of-the-mill event!
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Thanks Andy, not a run-of-the-mill event at all. Since 1920, the rate of nova detection in the LMC has been 0.6 per year, or one every 20 months. Better detection in modern times probably lifts this to a touch better than one a year for recent years.
There's a lot happening in the sky at the moment - apart from the current nova in Carina (V834 Carinae = Nova Carinae 2012) & the new discovery in the LMC, there are possible novae in Centaurus (mag 9s) and Ophiuchus (mag 12s). The whole sky's blowing up!
http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unco...8-2551454.html (Ophiuchus)
http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unco...0-5815470.html (Centaurus)
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=4002 (LMC)
http://www.aavso.org/aavso-alert-notice-455 (Carina)
Cheers -