ManifoldPlay moneyOtherDevelopingUpdated 9m ago

T Coronae Borealis reaches magnitude 5.0 before November 11th, 2026?

As of Oct 23, 2026, 11:32 AM ET, Manifold priced this market at 16.1% (down from 19.3% 24 hours earlier). It had 250 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 1K mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
16.1%
−3.2 percentage points
over 24 hours19.3% → 16.1%

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price — today's move came from a small group of accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: ProbCast snapshots (Manifold)

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Forming

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

1K mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

250 mana

Total volume

766 mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
59%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

8

Trades

11

over 86 days

Largest order

250 mana

766 mana traded across these 11 trades (last 86 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$766 traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the 'Blaze Star,' is a recurrent nova expected to undergo an outburst "soon". Historically, it has brightened to magnitude 2.0 or 3.0 during such events in 1866 and 1946 respectively.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the 'Blaze Star,' is a recurrent nova expected to undergo an outburst "soon". Historically, it has brightened to magnitude 2.0 or 3.0 during such events in 1866 and 1946 respectively. This market resolves to 'Yes' if T CrB reaches magnitude 5.0 or brighter before November 11th, 2026 (12:00:00 am ET), as reported by reputable astronomical sources such as the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). T Coronae Borealis - Wikipedia [link preview]

Why the odds moved

The probability fell 3.2 percentage points over the last 24 hours (19.3% → 16.1%).

No verified catalyst has been linked to this move yet. ProbCast does not attribute moves to news without evidence connecting the timing of a specific report to the repricing.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesNovember 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 23, 11:41 AM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±21 pts.

Reacting to newsLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Reacting to news

The price is actively repricing on real volume. The number is still moving — don't treat the latest print as settled consensus yet.

  • Probability moved 3.2 pts in ≤6h on adequate liquidity
  • Flow one-directional across 8 participants (broad, not a single order)

Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
30Low
Where the price path tends to go next478 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet98%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~25h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Thin market.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H0.06H-3.224H-3.27D-3.2

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