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Hi Greg,
The Current bright novae/supernovae lists Nova Sgr 2020 No. 4 as mag 5.5. Is this correct, or another case similar to what occurred with RX And? It would be cool if there's a nova visible to the naked eye. It's less than 2.5° from the Trifid nebula & M 21.
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No that's a bug. The code saw a minor increase in brightness last November and determined that it was a rising classical nova that had not peaked yet. As a result it estimated a very bright magnitude. I will have this fixed later today by updating the data. But I want to hold off on that for a bit so I can determine what went wrong and fix the code itself.
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(2021-02-04, 06:56 PM)PMSchu Wrote: 
is this the same issue that made RX And look spectacular?
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Yes. It has to do with the fact that the available data just stops in November. So its extrapolating a long time into the future. I have made the code more robust so this sort of things should not happen again.
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