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'= Hevelius' nova 1670?

Zhou Bo star

position:

-

1408

old spelling:

-

duration:
-
-
colour etc.:
yellow

supernova?

suggested

nova

suggested

supernova candidates

nova candidates

no SNR/ PSR candidate

CK Vul

alternatives:
         comet, microlensing or

...

most likely:

CK Vul

Reference (see publications)

Paper 0: Protte and Hoffmann, AN, 2020 

Paper 1: Vogt, Hoffmann, Tappert, AN, 2019 

Paper 2: Hoffmann, MNRAS 2019 

Paper 3: Hoffmann, Vogt, Protte, AN, 2020 

Paper 4: Hoffmann and Vogt, MNRAS, 2020

Paper 5: Hoffmann and Vogt, MNRAS, 2020

Paper 6: Hoffmann and Vogt, MNRAS, 2020

Book: Wolfschmidt and Hoffmann (eds.) 2021

Paper 7: Hoffmann, Vogt, New Astronomy, 2022

Reference

Book

Reference

Book

Map of the search field

no SNR/ PSR candidate

red ovals: all SNRs in field, 
blue asterixes: pulsars in the field

CK Vul
CK Vul

diamonds: all CVs in field, 
filled diamonds: bright enough

cyan ovals: all PNe in field, 
diamonds: symbiotic & CVs

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