File:Tycho observing 1572 supernova.jpg

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English: An engraving showing the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe observing the new star (supernova) in the Cassiopeia constellation (upper left corner). It appeared in the Historical book Astronomie Populaire by Camille Flammarion (Paris, 1884).
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Author Camille Flammarion
Camera location56° 05′ 17.16″ N, 13° 13′ 55.92″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Brahe observed the supernova from Herrevad Abbey, a Cistercian monastery near Ljungbyhed in Klippan Municipality, Scania, in the south of present-day Sweden, but formerly in Denmark until 1658.

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