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."
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From: GMA [mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 1:54 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] <off topic> another sky spectacle
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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