Naked-Eye Nova in Scorpius

[ian musgrave]

Sky was pretty mucky here in Adelaide, but still got an image of the nova with my little digital camera. Looks to be around magnitude 4.2

[avandonk]

Here is exactly the same region taken with a 85mm lens in July 2006.

Bert

[southern 40]

i was going out sunday morning for a last look at comet Mc Naught , so the heads up from Greg about the nova & finder chart from Ian gave me an extra target , sky was pretty bad in Adelaide, but i got a few shots further south.
First ones a close up of scorpius and second a widefield with Mc Naught and nova , BTW Mc Naughts still naked eye , just.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Supurb shots Bazz. The second one especially.

[Greg Bryant]

Some great shots here!

As anticipated, the nova is fading. Some reports received show it nearing 5th magnitude now.

[southern 40]

thks jjjnettie & Greg ,was lucky to get any shots ,if you look at comet there is a band of cloud under it which extended to the south with distant lightning and it was closing in fast but it was great to get out of Adelaide which had a temp of over 40c that day.