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Nova Lacertę 1936
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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. 
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CP Lacertae
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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.
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