Our long wait for the eruption of the recurrent nova T Corona Borealis continues.  As of the morning of March 17, 2026 in the eastern United States, it shows no sign of change as far as I can see.  One of the predictions made for T, also known as the Blaze Star, is that based on the idea that the eruption time is related to the orbit of the two stars around their barycenter, the next potential date of eruption is June 25, 2026.  Unannotated image.

Hover over the above thumbnail to see a compar- ison chart of T Coronae Borealis and its three neighbors with their magnitudes shown.  As can be seen, T appears to be a bit dimmer than the star marked 9.77, but noticeably brighter than the star marked 10.55. Therefore, I would esti- mate T to be about magnitude 9.8 or 9.9 today.