March 25, 2015
The Moon has changed phase thousands of times since the beginning of the cosmos, but only once did it shine on the night you arrived.
Naked Eye Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2
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APOD published March 25, 2015. Credit: Ajay Talwar (The World at Night). A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
It quickly went from obscurity to one of the brighter stars in Sagittarius -- but it's fading. Named Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2, the stellar explosion is the brightest nova visible from Earth in over a year. The featured image was captured four days ago from Ranikhet in the Indian Himalayas. Several stars in western Sagittarius make an asterism known as the Teapot, and the nova, indicated by the arrow, now appears like a new emblem on the side of the pot. As of last night, Nova Sag has faded from brighter than visual magnitude 5 to the edge of unaided visibility. Even so, the nova should still be easily findable with binoculars in dark skies before sunrise over the next week. Gallery: Solar Eclipse
Image credit: Ajay Talwar (The World at Night)