CP Lacertae

CP Lacertae is a nova that lit up in the constellation Lizard in 1936 . A distance of 5400 light years was calculated. Before the eruption, it was one and a half times as bright as our sun. At the outbreak, the Nova reached a brightness of 2.1 mag . The brightness of CP Lacertae decreased by 3 mag in 9 days after the outbreak.

Coordinates

• Right ascension : 22h 15m 40s. 64
• Declination : + 55 ° 36 '58 ". 3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Burnham: Chamaeleon-Orion. Courier Corporation, 1978, page 1044, on Google Books , accessed May 29, 2017