Nova Cygni 2010 in Visible Light (IMAGE)
Caption
Japanese amateur astronomers discovered Nova Cygni 2010 in an image taken at 19:08 UT on March 10 (4:08 a.m. Japan Standard Time, March 11). The erupting star (circled) was 10 times brighter than in an image taken several days earlier. The nova reached a peak brightness of magnitude 6.9, just below the threshold of naked-eye visibility.
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K. Nishiyama and F. Kabashima/H. Maehara, Kyoto University
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