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2025-06-23 15:25:59 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 15D49F6E9AEC1FCD47D631698519E1A2224F1AA93966ACE80B72F40E2F2800B0
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This is not an image of the nova. This is Vega (image has been flipped if look at the star patterns around it). Vega is about Mag 0. The nova is Mag 6. So image shows a star about 250x brighter than the nova. The nova at Mag 6.1 is only just visible to eye in a very dark sky. https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/vega-the-star-at-the-center-of-everything/ https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/bright-nova-lights-up-lupus/
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