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| Printable black and white chart of the japanese night sky at 18:42 ACST (90 minutes after sundown) as seen from Adelaide, exhibiting the placement of Nova V462 Lupi. Related views will likely be seen from elsewhere in Australia on the equal native time (90 minutes after sundown, click on to embiggen and print) | Printable black and white chart appropriate to be used with binoculars of the world round Nova V462 Lupi. The circle is the approximate discipline of view of 10×50 binoculars. The nova is roughly a binocular discipline from the intense stars beta and delta Lupi, Click on to embiggen and print |
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| south-eastern night sky at 18:42 ACST (90 minutes after sundown) as seen from Adelaide, exhibiting the placement of Nova V462 Lupi (circle marker). Related views will likely be seen from elsewhere in Australia on the equal native time (90 minutes after sundown). Click on to embiggen | Chart appropriate to be used with binoculars of the world round Nova V462 Lupi (circle marker).The nova is roughly a binocular discipline from the intense stars beta and delta Lupi, Click on to embiggen. |
Nova V426 Lupi faint (round magnitude 5.7, on the unaided eye threshold) however nonetheless holding its (faint) brightness and is currently around magnitude 5.9. It might be glimpsed by these with good visible acuity beneath darkish sky situations. Nonetheless, it’s best with binoculars or a small telescope. It’s nicely positioned for southern hemisphere observers and visual from the early night on. The intense stars beta and delta Lupi are clear guideposts to the nova. It’s joined within the Southern sky by nova V572 Velorum.
The nova is more likely to fade over the approaching days, and it’s worthwhile following it because it does so. It’s possible you’ll need to hold a report of its magnitude over this time.
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| My picture of V462 Lupi taken on 28 June, 19:01 ACST, samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely ƒ/3.4 2s 18.6 mm ISO3200 (5xZoom). Evaluate to charts above | My picture of V462 Lupi labelled |
Labels: binocular, nova, telescope
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 5:37 pm 
