Nova in Delphinus Options

[dtolman]

There is a rapidly brightening Nova in Delphinus right now - 20:23:30.7, +20:46:06

Was at mag 6 last night - now clearly brighter than the mag 4.8 star near to it, and brightening still!

[Airbag]

Thanks for the heads-up - literally - almost directly overhead! Easy to see with binocs in suburban skies despite thin high altitude clouds. I found the top chart here very useful. Look for the wide parallelogram of stars pointed to by Sagitta; the nova is the lower right hand one.

Airbag

[bkellysky]

Go to the plot of observed brightness at the AAVSO site.
The url is way too long, but you can find a link at Sky and Telescope's article....
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/h...-219631281.html

I like checking the curve every few hours to see if it's still brightening - so far it's estimated to be passing through 4th magnitude.

[bkellysky]

Nova Del 2013 is starting to dim.
I have a photo with the nova - looking like one of the many Milky Way stars, but a little brighter - at my Heads UP! blog http://bkellysky.wordpress.com/ .
Here's the latest plot of brightness from the AAVSO....

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