Perhaps we are there: the galactic nova ASASSN-17hx might be sitting right now on its maximum of light, after a long and slow rising march, but faster these last nights. Here they are our...
The galactic nova ASASSN-17hx continues to amaze us: it is now continuously brightening, day after day, making observers happy to have such an easy-to-see erupting star out there. We have just found it at...
You might be used to hear this, but we are happy to say it again: the galactic nova ASASSN-17hx is still rising, now shining at mag. 8.8 on our CCD images! So, we were...
More than one month after its discovery, the galactic nova ASASSN-17hx is still climbing! Last night we spotted it as bright as mag. 9.4 in our CCD images and we bet it will do...
After one week from our previous observation, we looked for the galactic nova ASASSN-17hx again, finding it brighter, at least on CCD images! This objects continues to shines for most of the night, waiting...
In less than one month, the galactic nova ASASSN-17hx has increased its brightness of about 2 full magnitudes, being now accessible with small telescopes and binoculars. Below is a new image and an animation,...
A new galactic nova, ASASSN-17hx, as just be confirmed in Scutum. Since its discovery, it increased its brighness significantly, becoming accessible to small telescopes. Let’s hope it will brighten more and more. The image above...
Earlier this month astronomers reported that stars in KIC 9832227, a contact binary system, are going to collide in a few years, with a resulting, huge visible effect, making it a bright object in...
A few days before the end of the year, on 27.9 Dec. 2015 E. Conseil reported the discovery of an optical transient, likely a nova, in the stunning Messier 33 spiral galaxy, the “Triangulum galaxy”...
On 11.4 Oct. 2015, K. Nishiyama (Kurume, Japan) and Fujio Kabashima (Miyaki, Japan) discovered a possible galactic nova in Ophiucus, temporarily named TCP J17344775-2409042. The nova nature was spectroscopically confirmed and the source was officially announced as...
On 5.548 Oct. 2015, K. Itagaki, Teppo-cho, Yamagata, Japan, discovered a possible galactic nova in Aquila, temporarily named PNV J19215012+1509248. The nova nature was spectroscopically confirmed and the source was officially announced as V1831 AQUILAE = NOVA...
On 27.429 Sept. 2015, K. Itagaki, Teppo-cho, Yamagata, Japan, discovered a possible galactic nova in Sagittarius, temporarily named PNV J18033275-2816054. The nova nature was spectroscopically confirmed and the source was officially announced as V5669 Sgr = Nova Sagittarii...
On 15 March 2015, J. Seach, Chatsworth Island, NSW, Australia, discovered a possible galactic nova in Sagittarius, temporarily named PNV J18365700-2855420. The nova nature was spectroscopically confirmed and the source was officially announced as Nova Sagittarii...
More than one year has gone since the last observation of V339 Del, also known as Nova Delphini 2013, via the Virtual Telescope. This star was a primary, scientific target for our project : it is...
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