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Community photo entitled  by David Hoskin on 03/31/2021 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

On 03/31/2021 05:00 am by David Hoskin| Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

V1405 Cas (Nova Cas 2021), the nova in Cassiopeia, was discovered on 18 March and is still shining brightly (magnitude 7.8 or a bit brighter), as shown in this image (location indicated by intersecting lines) captured early this morning. Messier 52, an open star cluster, is seen to the left of V1405 Cas

Orion ED80T-CF refractor/ASI183MC CMOS camera/EQ6R mount

11 5-minute subs and calibration frames were stacked and processed with Photoshop and MS Photo.