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| Image | T Pyx |
| Time | 2011/04/19 11:54 UT - 14:45 UT |
| Optics | Intane APO 8.0-cm refractor, f/7 |
| Camera | Canon EOS 1000D (ISO 800) |
| Exposure | 40 s x 191 frames |
| Processing | 191 images stacked in DeepSkyStacker 3.2.2 with dark frames subtracted; fixed with Fitswork V4.41, IRIS V5.56 and Photoshop CS3 Extended; 0.5x resized and cropped; |
| Comments | The recurrent nova is splendously situated approx. in the center of the image. |
The recurrent nova is discovered in outburst by Mike Linnolt, Hawaii, US, at a visual magnitude of 13.0 on 2011 Apr 14.2931 UT, which is later confirmed by A. Plummer and S. Kerr. It is the first outburst of T Pyx since Dec 7, 1966, nearly 45 years. Details c.f. AAVSO Alert Notice 436.