Tweedledee Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 If the calculations are correct, sometime between September 2021 and September 2022, a bright new star will appear in Cygnus. Two 12th mag stars currently orbiting each other, once in just eleven hours, will collide. This will create a new 2nd mag star which will temporarily be the brightest star in the rightmost wing of Cygnus. It should appear about a degree from star cluster NGC6811. http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-why-a-bright-new-star-could-be-appearing-in-the-night-sky-in-2022 Bottletopburly, Smithysteve and Perkil8r 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perkil8r Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Interesting to see if they are right. Of course it's going to be cloudy for the next decade so we won't see it anyway Tweedledee, tuckstar and Sheila 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 There's a chance that even an EMS member could be the first to see or image this explosion. You can locate this star using Stellarium. I think it is the first time that such an event has been predicted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Your correct Pete, they made their prediction based on data taken over the last 20 odd years where they think they found a similar thing happen, when they extrapolated the data to before and after the event, the stars in question now seem to be following a similar set of data points. Tweedledee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stash Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 It won't be cloudy we will have clear skies every night but it will be that dam bright you cant see anything else - worse than a full moon. Especially if Betelgeuse goes off or so Tbird keep telling me Tweedledee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 1 hour ago, Daz Type-R said: Your correct Pete, they made their prediction based on data taken over the last 20 odd years where they think they found a similar thing happen, when they extrapolated the data to before and after the event, the stars in question now seem to be following a similar set of data points. I thought something similar was predicted just over 2000 years ago. Not sure how rigorous the data sets were that they extrapolated from though. Smithysteve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I listen to a lot of astronomy podcasts on my commute, as I'm in the car for approx 2-3 hours a day, this topic was on one of them a month or so ago, so my recollection of the exact info is obviously off a tad. Tweedledee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 9 minutes ago, Daz Type-R said: I listen to a lot of astronomy podcasts on my commute, as I'm in the car for approx 2-3 hours a day, this topic was on one of them a month or so ago, so my recollection of the exact info is obviously off a tad. I had the "Star of Bethlehem" in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithysteve Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 This will be worth following, to see if prediction is accurate and to witness the nova. Cheers Pete! Tweedledee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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