Tuesday, July 01, 2025
Nova V572 Velorum, 2025
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| Printable black and white chart of the southern evening sky at 18:42 ACST (90 minutes after sunset) as seen from Adelaide, showing the location of Nova V572 Velorum. Similar views will be seen from elsewhere in Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset, click to embiggen and print) | Printable black and white chart suitable for use with binoculars of the area around Nova V572 Velorum. The circle is the approximate field of view of 10x50 binoculars. The nova is roughly a binocular field from the eta Carina nebula, Click to embiggen and print |
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| southern evening sky at 18:42 ACST (90 minutes after sunset) as seen from Adelaide, showing the location of Nova V572 Velorum (+marker 1). Similar views will be seen from elsewhere in Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset). The circle at top left is the position of of nova V462 Lupi. Click to embiggen | Chart suitable for use with binoculars of the area around Nova V572 Velorum (+marker 1in yellow).The nova is roughly a binocular field from the eta Carina nebula, Click to embiggen. |
A nova has erupted in the constellation of Vela, the sail. Known as nova V572 Velorum it is faint (around magnitude 5.7-5.8, at the unaided eye threshold) and may be glimpsed by those with good visual acuity under dark sky conditions. However, it is best with binoculars of a small telescope. It is well placed for southern hemisphere observers and visible from the early evening on. It is close to the Southen Pelaides (Theta Carina) and the eta Carina nebula. It is also not far for the nova V462 Lupi. The nova is likely to fade over the coming days, and it is worthwhile following it as it does so. You may already be doing this for V462 Lupi. You may want to keep a record of its magnitude over this time.
Having two "bright" novae in the sky at the same time, and in similar patches in the sky is rare, "On March 22, 2018, Nova Circinis 2018 reached a peak brightness of magnitude 5.8 , and on that same day, Nova V906 Carinae peaked at around magnitude 5.9."
Labels: binocular, nova, telescope
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 4:39 pm 
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