[PatrickHenry]

Try this website: ANCIENT ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS. If you scroll down, there's a section on NOVA AND SUPERNOVA.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the directory!!! I'm off to read the links.

[Alamo-Girl]

That is a great website! It's going to take a lot of reading to get through it, but I've already determined from this page that my problem with separating astrology and astronomy with regard to the shooting stars is going to be systemic.

Evidently, the ancients did in fact see such things as omens. I will continue searching for the an instance, prior to the 1 Enoch manuscript (200 BC), wherein the ancients believed a shooting star was the actual death of the star.