NOVA persei 2018

[StaceStar]

Hi all  last night I was lucky enough to image V392...which has gone a bit explodey and is now known as Nova Persei 2018.

Discovered on April 29th....it's now bright enough to be seen with binos...but is on the decline.

 

[Stargazer McCabe]

Thanks for this... 

I was observing this last night firstly with my 25x100s on the parallelogram and later handheld with the 16x70s. Reassuring to see I was looking at the right object !! 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I spotted this a few days ago (evening of May 1), and estimated it at mag 8.5, quite a bit down from 6.2 reported for April 30. I have seen it reported at 8.4 just now, so it might plateau. It might be an interesting target for using a UHC filter, as much of the flux coming from it is currently in emission lines like H-alpha

[StaceStar]

2 hours ago, Stargazer McCabe said:

Thanks for this... 

I was observing this last night firstly with my 25x100s on the parallelogram and later handheld with the 16x70s. Reassuring to see I was looking at the right object !! 

No worries!!!  i used platesolving to get to my target so rest assured we definitely got ourselves a nova!

[StaceStar]

2 hours ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said:

I spotted this a few days ago (evening of May 1), and estimated it at mag 8.5, quite a bit down from 6.2 reported for April 30. I have seen it reported at 8.4 just now, so it might plateau. It might be an interesting target for using a UHC filter, as much of the flux coming from it is currently in emission lines like H-alpha

i wish i had a UHC...all  i have is my CLS filter