Follow-up of Bright Supernova in M82

Taken by Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes & Martino Nicolini on January 22, 2014 @ remotely from New Mexico Click photo for larger image Camera Used: Unavailable Unavailable

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More images Details: We performed some follow-up of this new Supernova in M82 through a 0.50-m f/6.8astrograph + CCD + f/4.5 focal reducer from MPC Code H06 (iTelescope,New Mexico). On our images taken on January 22.3, 2014 we can confirmthe presence of an optical counterpart with unfiltered CCD magnitude 11.3 and R-filtered magnitude 11.0 at coordinates: R.A. = 09 55 42.17, Decl.= +69 40 25.9 (equinox 2000.0; UCAC-3 catalogue reference stars). An animation showing a comparison between our confirmation image and the archive POSS2/UKSTU plate (R Filter - 1998): http://bit.ly/KDLScg You must be logged in to comment.