A NOVA of the third magnitude was discovered on the night of June 1819 by Dr. Nielsen, of Aarhus, Denmark, who happened at the time to be one of a party of astronomers on board the P. and O. steamer Strathaird which was going to view the total eclipse of June 19 from a station off the coast of Greece. The nova was observed through cloud in England on the night of June 1920; estimates of the magnitude were difficult to make on account of the cloud, but the star was probably not brighter than the second magnitude. Read more
CP Lacertae (Nova Lacertae 1936 or CP Lac) was a nova, which lit up in 1936 in the constellation Lacerta. It reached a brightness of 2.1 mag. Read more