
Equipment: Nikon D3000, Refractor 15cm, ISO1600, 25s

Nova was discovered on 15. of March, when its brightness was estimated to magnitude +6.0. After few days its magnitude peaked to about +4.4 and was easily observed by naked eye. The best time to observer this new bright star is just before the start of astronomical twilight, when the nova is at its highest position in a dark sky.
As the name may suggest, novae are not really new stars but an explosion on a star that was barely observable before the event. They occur in binary star systems where tiny white dwarf (but with very strong gravitational force at its surface) pulls gases from a close nearby companion star. With time accumulated material forms a thin layer on the hot surface of the white dwarf star. Gravity at the surface compacts and heats the material until it fuses and burns explosively to create the explosion called a nova.
April 2015:
4 – Full moon at 12 UT.
4 – Conjunction of planets Mercury and Uranus At 11UT they are separated ~0.5 degrees.
5 – Uranus at solar conjunction, not observable.
6 – Comet C/2012 F3 (PANSTARRS) at perihelion, not very bright, it may reach magnitude +13.
18 – New moon.
19 – Mercury at superior solar conjunction at ~03UT.
22 – The Lyrid meteors peak at 24:00 UT with a ZHR of 18.
22 – Moon passes 0.1 degrees North of asteroid Juno.
RECENT STELLAR EVENTS::
Sn 2015f or PSN J07361576-6930230 Supernovae in NGC 2442 .
Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2 or PNV J18365700-2855420 Nova in constellation Sagittarius.
Nova Oph 2015 or PNV J17291350-1846120 Nova in constellation Ophicious.