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Subject: Re: [OM] <off topic> another sky spectacle
From: GMA <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:11:58 -0800
William;

I did miss that part. But still, mag 3.7 is not very bright.  Unless it
brightened up much past this, it would not be very bright, especially
near sunset.  For comparison, Jupiter is around Magnitude -2.0 right
now.  It can be seen as pretty bright around sunset and is fairly low in
the East at sunset right now.  But it is more than 2.512**5 = 100 times
brighter than a magnitude 3.7 star. So I'm still doubtful that Acer saw
the nova as 'extremely bright'.  

Acer: if you did see it, way cool.  It must have brightened up a
**whole** lot though, which would also be way cool.


George


"Gripp, William [NCSUS]" wrote:
> 
> The web site says "Over the course of the next 18 hours skywatchers in Japan
> and Europe tracked the nova as it brightened to magnitude 3.7. Early this
> evening (i.e., Thursday) over North America, the new star should be visible
> to the unaided eye even in modestly light-polluted
> suburban skies."
> 
> 
> Ahh, Acer, are you saying you saw the Nova?  And it was extrememly
> bright?  Err, it's a 6th magnitude star.  At the limit of human
> visibility on a reasonably dark nite.  You sure you weren't looking east
> at Jupiter?
> 
> A naked-eye nova at sunset would be quite a sight, but I don't think
> this is it.
> 
> George
> 
> PS, but thanks for the URL.
> 
> Acer V wrote:
> >
> > Saw this brilliant beauty while on the freeway this evening around 5pm.
> > Some of you might want to try to go for it; VERY easily visible, low on
> > horizon past sunset, extremely bright. Don't know what it looks like on
> > the website below, but in person it was spectacular.
> >
> > http://www.skypub.com/news/news.shtml
> >
> > /AV
> > --

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