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mk  ·  4125 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bright New Nova In Delphinus — You can See it Tonight With Binoculars

Thanks, I am going to the Northern part of Lower Michigan tonight, which will present a good opportunity to take a look.

I'm not sure this is correct, however, since the lower the magnitude, the brighter the object:

    Novae can rise in brightness from 7 to 16 magnitudes, the equivalent of 50,000 to 100,000 times brighter than the sun, in just a few days.

Maybe they mean 7 to 16 times as bright?

From the Astronomer's Telegram:

    An optical spectrum of PNV J20233073+2046041 (http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/followups/J20233073+2...) was obtained (through patchy cloud) by the FRODOSpec instrument on the 2m robotic Liverpool Telescope on La Palma at 2013 August 14.909. The spectrum contains strong Balmer series emission exhibiting P Cygni profiles with velocities ~2000 km/s. A number of Fe II (also P Cygni profiles) and (weak) He I lines may be present. This object is likely to be a newly erupting classical nova (in the early fireball stage) and follow up observations are encouraged.