For southerners, and defiant northerners, it's time to pick up the chase again for T Pyx. I wrote up our previous results in the attachment, which most of you have seen... but have been delaying the formal, larger paper until we got a month or so of 2013-14 timings. It makes a big difference whether the sudden delta-P will be erased in a few years, or just be the anchor point for further period increase. The baseline is now long enough to resolve the difference.
The usual time-series considerations apply. Unfiltered is fine, BUT it would be good if someone obtained SOME calibrated magnitudes, especially V.
Naked-eye nova in Centaurus! Break out the sunglasses. http://s176.photobucket.com/user/walcom77/media/pnv_cen_animation_T31_3_december_2013_zps83b608d2.gif.html A few months from now, we may want to go after this star. joe
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