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Offline Trekkygeek Topic starter
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Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight

Gotta dust down those binoculars for this one:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8725053/Exploding-star-to-be-visible-from-Earth-within-a-fortnight.html
Posted August 26, 2011, 20:43:16 PM Logged
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Re: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight

Not something you get to see too often, nice find  thumbsup

And welcome back Trekky  Smiley
Posted August 26, 2011, 20:49:01 PM Logged

Offline Trekkygeek Topic starter
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Re: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight

Cheers Data, I missed out on the last Supernova so really want to see this one.
This time I will really try to hang around more often (I promised Snowcrash)  lol
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Offline Snowcrash
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Re: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight

It's no where near visible with the naked eye yet.

Here's a post with more info.

** trekkeygeek: Just another 2 posts and your name will change colour.
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Offline Snowcrash
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Re: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight

Expected mag 10 or 11 as max brightness.

You'll want a steady hand and large bins to see it.

*Trekkygeek: I will see what I can do about scope time. Weather depending.

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