Ahh, Acer, are you saying you saw the Nova? And it was extrememly
bright? Err, it's a 6th magnitude star. At the limit of human
visibility on a reasonably dark nite. You sure you weren't looking east
at Jupiter?
A naked-eye nova at sunset would be quite a sight, but I don't think
this is it.
George
PS, but thanks for the URL.
Acer V wrote:
>
> Saw this brilliant beauty while on the freeway this evening around 5pm.
> Some of you might want to try to go for it; VERY easily visible, low on
> horizon past sunset, extremely bright. Don't know what it looks like on
> the website below, but in person it was spectacular.
>
> http://www.skypub.com/news/news.shtml
>
> /AV
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