On 11.8 Feb. 2015, Tadashi Kojima, Gunma-ken, Japan, reported the discovery of a bright transient in Scorpius, likely a galactic nova. The provisional designation is PNV J17032620-3504140 on the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT)...
Do you remember the spectacular Nova Delphini 2013? It erupted in Aug. 2013 and was a nice sight by naked eye, when it peaked a bit fainter than mag. 4. By the end of...
Last night, at Virtual Telescope we wanted to visit Nova Cygni 2014, after our prompt, very precious follow-up done soon after the transient was spotted in the sky. The PlaneWave 17″robotic unit took three,...
NB: this transient was officially named “Nova Cygni 2014” in the CBET 3842 (subscription required), including our prompt follow-up! Late on 31 Mar. 2014, a possible nova in Cygnus, temporary designation PNV J20214234+3103296, was reported...
Updates (8 Nov. 2013): the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams has just issued the CBET 3691 Circular, announcing this object is now Nova Aquilae 2013. Our early and continued observations made possible to understand...
Updates (29.44 Oct. 2013): we inspected POSS2, red digitized plates at the OT position. There are a few, very close 15-16 mag. stars there. Looking at the OT position provided by our astrometry, we see...
*** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** *** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** Nova Delphini 2013 is for sure one of the most important astronomical events of this...
Nova Delphini 2013 has been followed from the Virtual Telescope since its discovery. In particular, our prompt low-res spectroscopy unveiled the nova nature, as reported on CBET 3628. Below, we report all the spectra available,...
*** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** *** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** On 14 Aug. 2013, a nova was discovered in Delphinus and right now it is shining at mag...
Last update: 11 Oct. 2013, 09:30 UT Above is the podcast from our Nova del 2013 live session Note (15.4 Aug 2013): this object was officially classified as...
Last 2 Feb. 2013, K.Nishiyama and F. Kabashima (Japan) reported the discovery of a possible nova in Cepheus. This star is well located in the sky for northern observers at the beginning of the night....
During the tests performed these last nights at the Virtual Telescope while fine tuning the new software recently installed, we were lucky enough to serendipitously capture a nova (not a supernova) candidate in Messier...
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