What do you make of this interesting article?
http://www.sciencealert.com/visible-...the-first-time
What do you make of this interesting article?
http://www.sciencealert.com/visible-...the-first-time
Clear Dark Skies,
Dragan Nikin
25" f/5 Obsession #610 "Toto"
30" f/4.5 OMI EVO #1 "Tycho"
www.darkskiesapparel.com
Now that's super cool! The AAVSO give these coordinates for V404 CYG: 20 24 03.83 +33 52 02.2 (J2000.0)
Howard
30-inch f/2.7 alt-az Newtonian
https://sites.google.com/site/howardbanichhomepage/
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Contributing Editor, Sky & Telescope magazine
Here's the ESA press release when the outburst occurred last June and the chatter on AAVSO at the time.
It looks like it had another huge outburst again a few days ago, according to recent observations on AAVSO
Steve
24" f/3.7 Starstructure
18" f/4.3 Starmaster
Adventures in Deep Space
Contributing Editor, Sky & Tel
Thanks for the AAVSO chatter link Steve - the second to last post, made today, includes a link showing a video of the huge brightness changes over only 5 hours: http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/ritobs...04cyg_anim.gif
Howard
30-inch f/2.7 alt-az Newtonian
https://sites.google.com/site/howardbanichhomepage/
https://sites.google.com/site/sprays...pemirrors/home
Contributing Editor, Sky & Telescope magazine