Update on T Coronae Borealis (T Crb)
Saturday, March 29, 2025 0:01
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| Sky chart facing north west on Sunday, March 30 as seen from Adelaide at 06:02 ACST (90 minutes before sunrise, click to embiggen). The location of T CrB is shown with a circle. Similar views will be seen 90 minutes after Sunset elsewhere in Australia. | Printable black and White Sky chart facing north west on Sunday, March 30 as seen from Adelaide at 06:o2 ACST (90 minutes before sunrise, click to embiggen and print). The location of T CrB is shown with a dark square The field of view of 10×50 binoculars is shown with circle. Similar views will be seen 90 minutes after Sunset elsewhere in Australia. |
Some recent postings about the “Blaze Star” T Coronae Borealis (T Crb) are suggesting it might go Nova Real Soon Now. It hasn’t, but spectral indications suggest it may be ready to go “soonish” (where soonish is anywhere between now and November 2025).
Although you need to be up in the early hours of the morning to see it, T CrB goes nova roughly every 80 years, where it flaers from being invisible to the unaided eye to brighter than the brightest star in its constellation (~ magnitude 2). So its worth while keeping an eye out for this rare event.
Source: http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2025/03/update-on-t-coronae-borealis-t-crb.html
