Case file · Cosmic event
Teika's guest star of 1054
The poet Fujiwara no Teika copied into his diary, the Meigetsuki, a court record of a 'guest star' in 1054, the supernova that made the Crab Nebula.
1054 CE · 35.02, 135.76 · status: official
The account
Teika collected older reports of guest stars around 1230 after seeing a comet. His list also preserves the supernovae of 1006 and 1181, making the diary a key source for modern astronomers.
Connections in the atlas
- The guest star of 1181
- The hand, the moon and the star at Peñasco Blanco