Heads up: Mag 10.3 nova found in Ophiuchus

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Spotted this on the latest supernovae site:

http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html#gaia18bz10

A bit low at declination -28, but bright enough for binoculars

[Paul73]

Should be a nice one for our more southerly friends.

Thanks for posting.

Paul

 

[andrew63]

There's a similar brightness nova in Canis Major, so much better placed.  It seems to be fluctuating between around 10 and 12th mag. on different nights. Not had a chance to look yet, see chart link but around mag 10.5 last night.  Chart is for refractor view.

https://www.aavso.org/apps/vsp/chart/?fov=60.0&scale=D&star=N+CMa+2018&orientation=visual&maglimit=14.5&resolution=150&north=up&east=right&type=chart

andrew

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I see it has been removed from the supernovae page (it being a nova, so fair enough). The positional data can be found here:

https://wis-tns.weizmann.ac.il/object/2018anm

 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

15 hours ago, andrew63 said:

There's a similar brightness nova in Canis Major, so much better placed.  It seems to be fluctuating between around 10 and 12th mag. on different nights. Not had a chance to look yet, see chart link but around mag 10.5 last night.

https://www.aavso.org/apps/vsp/chart/?fov=60.0&scale=D&star=N+CMa+2018&orientation=visual&maglimit=14.5&resolution=150&north=down&east=right&type=chart

andrew

Very interesting. Thanks for the chart