Alert: Nova in Sagittarius

[dvj (John)]

Anyone seen this yet? We are totally under the weather in Coonabarabran for the last few days and into the week.

Mag 7.8 as of July 8th.
RA: 18H 20.5M
DEC: -27 44'

[JB80 (Jarrod)]

Even assuming that the weather was to improve enough to have a look it's a bit low for me which is a pity.
It would seem like this one is/was well within reach even for my setup.

[Vegeta (Ibrahim)]

Darn, I hope the weather clears out here!!!

[Terry B]

I'm away from home at present so cant look at it but there is lots of info about the flood of recent nova here. http://www.astrosurf.com/aras/novae/Novae_Aras.html

Cheers

Terry