22 Apr
2015
22 Apr
'15
4:42 p.m.
On 22 Apr 2015, at 16:19, John M. Craig <jmcraig@xmission.com> wrote:
The moral, I suppose, is if it's not on your chart/software, check another source. Odd that the software's not more clear/correct though & a nova (super or otherwise) would have been really neat.
Brings to mind an incident years ago when I was working with a guy out of California on a search for novae. One of the people in the program reported finding a very bright nova where no star was seen on any of his star charts. We eventually found he had "discovered" Uranus. Grins, patrick