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#TCorBor magnitude 9.6
Observed 2025-08-05 Observer: HMB
Source AAVSO
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#TCorBor magnitude 9.6
Observed 2025-08-05 Observer: HMB
Source AAVSO
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#TCorBor magnitude 10.0
Source AAVSO, Observer: HBB on 2025-06-26
#blazeStar #TCrB -
#TCorBor magnitude 10.0
Source AAVSO, Observer: HBB on 2025-06-26
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#TCorBor magnitude 10.2
Observed 2025-06-18 -
#TCorBor magnitude 10.2
Observed 2025-06-18 -
This might become a bit tedious, but I'm checking it most days anyway. Kind of like a bot feed, but I'm the bot.
#TCorBor today: magnitude 10.2
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This might become a bit tedious, but I'm checking it most days anyway. Kind of like a bot feed, but I'm the bot.
#TCorBor today: magnitude 10.2
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NB: the magnitude-reporting page for the star T Coronae Borealis is working properly again, in case you're curious to click it occasionally
I tend to peek at it most days – its magnitude drifts between 9 and 11 at this point.
Some day soon(?) it's supposed to surge up to a M2 but don't bet your nest egg on a particular date.
It's a good seven months or so overdue based on the predictions. I'm guessing 2026 myself, but we'll see!
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NB: the magnitude-reporting page for the star T Coronae Borealis is working properly again, in case you're curious to click it occasionally
I tend to peek at it most days – its magnitude drifts between 9 and 11 at this point.
Some day soon(?) it's supposed to surge up to a M2 but don't bet your nest egg on a particular date.
It's a good seven months or so overdue based on the predictions. I'm guessing 2026 myself, but we'll see!
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Thinking of the Blaze Star, a recurrent nova coming soon, I wonder how many historic moments were marked by such events.
Soon, a 'new' star will shine for 3 days before vanishing. This nova repeats every ~80 years, and recent observations show it's imminent.
#BlazeStar #ZombieStar #RecurrentNova
#TCoronaeBorealis
#NorthernCrown
#News #History
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Thinking of the Blaze Star, a recurrent nova coming soon, I wonder how many historic moments were marked by such events.
Soon, a 'new' star will shine for 3 days before vanishing. This nova repeats every ~80 years, and recent observations show it's imminent.
#BlazeStar #ZombieStar #RecurrentNova
#TCoronaeBorealis
#NorthernCrown
#News #History
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Checking domains – these are some good ones currently available:
DidItNovaYet.com
NovaYet.com
BlazeStarGoBoom.com
UGotNova.com
ShouldILook.com -
Checking domains – these are some good ones currently available:
DidItNovaYet.com
NovaYet.com
BlazeStarGoBoom.com
UGotNova.com
ShouldILook.com -
I keep checking to see if #TCoronaeBorealis has gone nova yet, but it seems like it hasn't.
Could happen any day between now and September. I'm not sure what the most definitive source is, or who will report the fastest when it happens.
Seems like a good opportunity for a single purpose website. Like maybe: hasTCoronaeBorealisGoneNovaYet.com
perhaps? Pretty small audience probably.
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I keep checking to see if #TCoronaeBorealis has gone nova yet, but it seems like it hasn't.
Could happen any day between now and September. I'm not sure what the most definitive source is, or who will report the fastest when it happens.
Seems like a good opportunity for a single purpose website. Like maybe: hasTCoronaeBorealisGoneNovaYet.com
perhaps? Pretty small audience probably.
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Coming soon! — Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
Sometime between May and September, a #WhiteDwarf is expected to go thermonuclear.
Jacek Krywko - 5/21/2024,
"When you look at the northern sky, you can follow the arm of the Big Dipper as it arcs around toward the bright star called Arcturus. Roughly in the middle of that arc, you'll find the Northern Crown constellation, which looks a bit like a smiley face. Sometime between now and September, if you look to the left-hand side of the Northern Crown, what will look like a new star will shine for five days or so.
"This star system is called T. Coronae Borealis, also known as the #BlazeStar, and most of the time, it is way too dim to be visible to the naked eye. But once roughly every 80 years, a violent thermonuclear explosion makes it over 10,000 times brighter. The last time it happened was in 1946, so now it’s our turn to see it."
#SpaceWeather #Astronomy #DarkSkies #Skywatching #CelestialEvents
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Coming soon! — Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
Sometime between May and September, a #WhiteDwarf is expected to go thermonuclear.
Jacek Krywko - 5/21/2024,
"When you look at the northern sky, you can follow the arm of the Big Dipper as it arcs around toward the bright star called Arcturus. Roughly in the middle of that arc, you'll find the Northern Crown constellation, which looks a bit like a smiley face. Sometime between now and September, if you look to the left-hand side of the Northern Crown, what will look like a new star will shine for five days or so.
"This star system is called T. Coronae Borealis, also known as the #BlazeStar, and most of the time, it is way too dim to be visible to the naked eye. But once roughly every 80 years, a violent thermonuclear explosion makes it over 10,000 times brighter. The last time it happened was in 1946, so now it’s our turn to see it."
#SpaceWeather #Astronomy #DarkSkies #Skywatching #CelestialEvents
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CW: Huge star explosion to appear in sky in once-in-a-lifetime event
> The binary star system in the constellation Corona Borealis — “northern crown” — is normally too dim to see with the naked eye.
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> But every 80 years or so, exchanges between its two stars, which are locked in a deadly embrace, spark a runaway nuclear explosion.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-huge-star-explosion-sky-lifetime.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Coronae_Borealis
#astronomy
#binaryStar
#binarySystem
#BlazeStar
#CoronaBorealis
#recurrentNova
#TCoronaeBorealis
#TCrB
