[Friends_of_SSASTROS] Are You Tired of Waiting...

[Mike McCabe]

 Good for you, Nick! I got out there too last night! The Sun's sister from my driveway was easy-peasy in 10x50 binos, but the nova was buried in my southern tree line. Off to Robin's Pond I went, where after very careful star hopping from Antares I was able to glean only Gamma Lupi (@ 2.95m it's the brightest star in the area of the nova), and everything else around it was buried in the muck. Hopefully we'll get another chance with a better sky during the upcoming week.
Mike M.

    On Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 04:07:30 PM EDT, Taboo Groundhog <bubflush at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Seems like it is still shining bright, at least as of 10:30pm last night. By my estimates it looked to be high 5th to low 6th magnitude. It was just barely visible through the finder scope. 
On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM Mike McCabe <cartech2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

...for T CrB to erupt? It's V462 Lupi to the rescue!
The prospects of seeing the much-promised nova in the constellation Corona Borealis seem to be getting dimmer and dimmer...hahaha...pun intended, but fear not, you can go out in the next few nights and catch sight of another Milky Way star gone nova, albeit this one is much lower in our skies than T CrB would be if it lit up. The constellation Lupus scrapes our southern horizon these early summer evenings, and there is where you can find a nova that is currently on the threshold of naked-eye visibility. For ease of viewing and the convenience of simplicity, grab a pair of binos and head out to your low southern horizon viewing spot around 10:30 in the evening tonight or tomorrow night. The chart shown below, and attached to this email for your printing convenience, will guide you straight to the exploding star. See it before it fades! 



  
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