Can anybody tell me ??????????????????

[supernova]

Have any of you knowledgeable people out there got any info of a supernova around 6 BC.

This not a joke I am trying to find out something.

I have to do a talk with a group in a few weeks time and it is relevent.

Thanks.

[Wedge]

I am probably completely wrong, but was the bright supernova, the 'star of Bethlehem'?

:?

[supernova]

I am probably completely wrong, but was the bright supernova, the 'star of Bethlehem'?

:?

Nope.

[Astro_Baby]

Let me guess - your going to talk about the star of Bethlehem - possibly a supernova ( Type Ia/Ic Supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy ) or possibly a planetary conjunction ( Mars, Jupiter and Saturn ).

I did a fast bit of web reading to get that

[661-pete]

No reliable supernova in history prior to the one in 185CE, near Alpha Centauri (recorded in China) which allegedly reached mag. -8. Are you sure you're not after the Jupiter-Saturn triple conjunction, supposedly around 6 BCE (although this is disputed)?

[scotastro]

Appropriately, in Sky & Telescope Dec issue last page "Focal Point" Michael Molnar explains why there was not a "Star", but a event (and not necessarily celestial fireworks) which was highly significant to astrologers of the time and to them told of a new King.

Mike

[supernova]

This is nothing to do with religion, it is astro related

It could be the Jupiter-Saturn triple conjunction Have you got a link ? Pete.

[661-pete]

This is nothing to do with religion, it is astro related

It could be the Jupiter-Saturn triple conjunction Have you got a link ? Pete.

Only wikipedia I'm afraid, a source you've no doubt already investigated...

EDIT: the animated screen shot illustrating Jupiter-Saturn, on the Wiki page, looks very much to me like it's a direct grab from Cartes du Ciel - but it carries no accreditation to CdC. Is this a breach of copyright - or at the very least, of etiquette? Should Wikipedia be alerted - or the author of CdC?

[Mel]

Sorry Bern, I may be old but even I can't remember that far back!

[ash]

I'm not knowledgeable but is that the one from china were they reported it was so bright that they could still read at night. am sure it was on a program last weekend ' the universe' i think?

Sorry can't be more specific

Good luck

Andy

[jgs001]

Nothing about a Supernova, but I recall reading or watching something that said the stra of Bethlehem was probably Jupiter moving around and then retrograde near Regulus. As it seemed to move away from and back towards the star (Regulus has got to have something to do with Kingly surely )

[Tiny]

Sorry Bern nowt on a supernova back then.

But looking at the ISS going over I could not but thing that if a large space ship had been in orbit then it would have acted just like the star was described to do.

[Sam]

What about a comet Bernie?

I think I read somewhere that when Augustus added Imperator to his long list of titles there was a bright comet in the sky, signifying that Caesar (Julius, well dead by that point) was pleased with Augustus. That must have been pretty close to 6 BC, give or take a few years.

Sam

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Found this Bernie, scroll down to No.2

http://www.astro.uu.nl/~strous/AA/en/antwoorden/hemel.html#v211

It seems that Kepler thought that a conjunction in 6BC would cause a SN, but we now know that its got nothing to do with it.

Kaptain klevtsov

[supernova]

Thanks everybody I think I will settle for a comet and thanks KK for the link I printed it off, now I need to learn it because I am sure somebody will ask me a Question I cant answer and that is very.

Embarassing I can tell you.

Take two.