Well, I finally saw the nova (13H54m45s, -59.01) , which is just visible to the unaided eye, but much better in binoculars.
For me in the tropics, it was up at 4am, as Alpha does not rise here till the early hours.
I am interested in following any changes in colour.
How would others describe the colour? ( I am not saying what I thought, as I do not wish to sway others.)
I had a look this morning just before twilight and it seemed to have a slightly pink hue. I did not notice any colour as the morning twilight kicked in.
Compared with last Sunday morning, the Nova seemed about 0.2mag brighter this morning
At first glance, the colour appears to be a mainly white, but with a slight orange/yellow hue to it. This hue appeared slightly lighter today than it appeared on Sunday.
Burnt the midnight oil tonight with work. Once done and stumbling over the kids skate-bloody-boards in the dark at 4:30 in the morning, I looked up and the clouds just parted to give me a lovely first look of the nova. How cool! Ha, my first nova, . Easy to make out from my home in Sydney too.
While its been a poor year at the scope, I did manage a number of firsts over the last 18 months - my first comet (Lemmon) since Halley's (yeah, bring up McNaught and I'll break your arm!), my first supernova (in NGC 1365), and the fainter members of the Trapesium in Orion all the way to Trap i !!! Not too bad a year all the same, .
This maybe a dumb question but if Alpha Centauri is our nearest Star to earth (excluding our Sun) then this Nova would be the closet on record. Or is it way back behind Alpha Centauri by thousands of lightyears?
Actually, the Nova is closer in the sky to beta centauri than alpha.
But you're right, the Nova is a lot more distant than either. I read today that it is currently the most distant star visible to the naked eye, although I don't think an accurate distance is yet known.
Rats - had the scope out last night and didn't know!! I remember SN1987 - was one of the first things I saw with my scope as a kid... ahhh the days of the 50mm refractor with 0.96" EPs. Seems a lifetime ago... oh... wait...
The brightness this the nova this morning seemed unchanged compared to the morning of the 11th. I had difficult observering conditions though, being through broken cloud and haze.
I had a look at it two nights ago, seemed pinky orange in colour, I don't know if this is it's colour or atmosphere interference. Seeing is not great at the moment as harvesting is on & lots of dust & smoke pollution is in the air.
The nova has faded during the last 24 hours and the colour has deepened. It is about 0.2-0.3 Mag fainter than yesterday and the colour is a redish-brown, rather like Arcturus, but one shade lighter.
Yes, that's looking the characteristic pink of a nova that is pumping out light in the Ha and Hb wavelengths. A bluish-pink - not unlike the shade of the fire of M42, and for the same reasons. Check our the spectra in the thread in the spectroscopy section of the forum and you'll see why.
There seemed to be no significant change in brightness or colour during the last 24 hours. It was a difficult observation this morning though with continious light cloud and the Moon above the horizon for the first time.
I'd like to share Rogerio Marcon's spectrum of the Nova made in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil this last week. Our spectroscopy group has been studying and reducing data every time he has a new one.
I wonder why I can'f find photometry data about Nova Cen 2013. I found just a little on the AAVSO site. It would certainly help us understand the events happening in this intriguing nova.
. Easy to make out from my home in Sydney too. 
), my first supernova (in NGC 1365), and the fainter members of the Trapesium in Orion all the way to Trap i !!! Not too bad a year all the same, 
