Shamefully forgotten anniversary

Exactly one thousand years ago this month, in May 1006, the brightest Supernova ever witnessed in recorded history (to this day) exploded in the southern constellation Lupus. (Dont confuse with the 1054 Crab Nebula explosion)
It was witnessed all over the Far and Middle East but was a bit far south for most of Europe.

One place in Europe described it beautifully: The IRISH monastery of St. Gallen beside Lake Constance in the Swiss Alps. It barely peeked above the Alps from St. Gallen & this helped to pin-point it's position very neatly.

St. Gallen is today a United Nations "World Heritage City" and very proud of it's Irish roots(It was founded in 612AD by the Irish monk Gall and is named after him.).
What a pity nobody in Ireland remembers this Irish observation !

Thanks for sharing that...wish i had of seen it!!!

Fascinating. Do you know of any good sites with details of the Irish/St. Gallen link to the 1006 supernova, or with general information on the supernova?

The Supernova:
celestialdelights.info/pub/SN1006_1.htm

The monk:
www.newadvent.org/cathen/06347a.htm

The city today:
www.gallen-bodensee.ch/englisch/10.html

Thanks for the heads-up on that pmgisme, I never knew that one!

The real "action" in Europe was not in Switzerland incidentally,it was here in Ireland.

When the rest of Europe was sunk in the illiterate Dark Ages Ireland enjoyed a Golden Age.

The finest astronomical records from the Dark Ages are here in Ireland.

If you want to inspect a perfect record of every solar and lunar eclipse visible from Ireland covering those six hundred years visit the website of Daniel P. McCarthy of Trinity College Dublin:

www.cs.tcd.ie/Dan.McCarthy/

Nowhere else in Europe has anything remotely approaching the astronomical records that we Irish have kept to ourselves.

(Not surprising we hid them, we barely saved the Book of Kells. Note how the Ardagh Chalice and Derrynaflane Chalices were buried in bogs for a millenium!
Those who tried to conquer us STILL don't know that those records exist !