Nova Centauri 2013 imaged from São Paulo, Brazil. (Credit: Ednilson Oliveira).
Posted on 12/04/2013 7:25:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
If you live in the southern hemisphere, the southern sky constellation of Centaurus may look a little different to you tonight, as a bright nova has been identified in the region early this week.
The initial discovery of Nova Centauri 2013 (Nova Cen 2013) was made by observer John Seach based out of Chatsworth Island in New South Wales Australia. The preliminary discovery magnitude for Nova Cen 2013 was magnitude +5.5, just above naked eye visibility from a good dark sky site. Estimates by observers over the past 24 hours place Nova Cen 2013 between magnitudes +4 and +5 “with a bullet,” meaning this one may get brighter still as the week progresses.
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Clearly Bush’s fault.
It blowed up real good!
ping!
Man, the Southern Hemisphere has all the good stuff.
Seems that way sometimes.
Got to be discrimination involved here............
GMTA, even with a delay...........
ASTRONOMY PING!!!!
Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri are about 36 minutes of arc apart, so I would think they would appear closer together in the sky. (I’ve never been far enough south to see them.) In other words, the star map is blown up and the nova would appear pretty close to Beta Centauri.
If we all run to one side of the Earth we can rotate the planet just right so we can view the nova ourselves.....
Ummm...
You running for congress?
:-)
I have a vivid memory of reading a Superman comic when I was I guess 10 or 12 years old. He was engaging in inexplicable behavior by carrying massive quantities of stuff to the south pole, for example ( as I remember ) junk cars and sand from the Sahara Desert. The latter he transported by use of a gigantic sack, tied at one end, and the picture showed him carrying it as though he were an ant attached to it, flying through the air. This strained my credulity, and I think it’s why I remember it so well.
It was finally explained that he was being mind-controlled by some race of benign “Watcher” aliens, because the earth was about to be crushed by the excess weight in the northern hemisphere. This didn’t wash either, but it was food for thought. Not a bad test question, actually.
I am not that crazy. I have been tested.
(Big Bang Theory)
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