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Old 07-12-2013, 02:12 AM
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Nova Centauri 2013 7/12/13

Nova Centauri 2013 on 7th December

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Old 07-12-2013, 02:22 AM
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nice one. I am imaging closeup now
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Old 07-12-2013, 02:47 AM
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Good one Paula. Just a bit fainter than Epsilon Crucis. Seems we southern hemispherians were destined to be compensated for no Comet ISON with a nova.
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Old 07-12-2013, 03:32 AM
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nice one. I am imaging closeup now
Thanks Dave, look forward to the close up.

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Good one Paula. Just a bit fainter than Epsilon Crucis. Seems we southern hemispherians were destined to be compensated for no Comet ISON with a nova.
Thanks Tom, we did get treated to something special.
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Old 07-12-2013, 07:45 AM
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Great capture Paula.

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Old 09-12-2013, 10:40 PM
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Nice shots Paula,

The distance away of this Nova seems controversial:

http://www.universetoday.com/106932/...#ixzz2myc3MZkA

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As of yet, there is no firm distance measurement for Nova Cen 2013,
though radio observations with southern sky assets may pin it down.
One northern hemisphere based program, known as the EVLA Nova Project, seeks to do just that.

But it says here:

http://www.psychohistorian.org/displ...n-2013.content

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So, with enthusiastic hand-waving, we can say the nova lies between 5,700 and 10,000 light years from Earth.
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Old 09-12-2013, 10:45 PM
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Well done, Paula
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Old 09-12-2013, 11:17 PM
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Thanks Dave, look forward to the close up.

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here it is Paula
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Old 10-12-2013, 08:47 AM
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The distance away of this Nova seems controversial:
An ATEL was posted yesterday at http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=5639 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Observatory. They have among other things made a measurement of the interstellar extinction, i.e. how much the light has been affected by interstellar dust, which gives a crude distance measurement.

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we have preliminarily estimated ... a low extinction and a not large distance for the nova
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Old 10-12-2013, 10:16 AM
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An ATEL was posted yesterday at http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=5639 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Observatory. They have among other things made a measurement of the interstellar extinction, i.e. how much the light has been affected by interstellar dust, which gives a crude distance measurement.
Thanks.
It's amazing that they can be so sure about these distances.
How do they know that it's not coming from a supernova in a distant galaxy?
They obviously think that it's not far away in our own galaxy.
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