Transient objects for viewing

[John Pickering]

Heads up – a supernova in Virgo. Not our galaxy, sadly, but could be a fun target to try and track down.  I’m going to give it a go.

[Rob Glassey]

It’s good fun chasing these, and interesting to return to it over the following weeks and even months as it fades away.

Any luck?

 

[Cameron McEwing]

Hi John

I’ve been following this supernova, and it still on the rise up to peak brightness, my last photometric measurement had it at magnitude 13.68 (V) yesterday. Here is an image I took on the 5th.

 

And this is my light curve so far…

There is also a new nova in Sagittarius that looks really interesting.  I think it peaked at mag 8-9 see…

https://www.aavso.org/aavso-alert-notice-739

Cameron 🙂

[Cameron McEwing]

Supernova SN 2021hiz is continuing to brighten and is now at magnitude 13.3 (V).

 

[John Pickering]

Thanks for the update Cameron – love the graphs.  I did manage to capture it in my little 4.5″ eVscope.  Quite a thrill. Screen shot attached.

[Cameron McEwing]

Wow. That’s fantastic John. 🙂

[Rob Glassey]

Awesome! It is getting bright!

[Rob Glassey]

Here’s what I got on Monday night night from my back yard.

Seeing was pretty awful but there it is.

My first image was of the other IC3322! Stellarium calls both galaxies the same name.

This was a stack of 44 x 15 second images with a 6″ f/5 and QHY5L-II mono camera.

The EV scope is doing really well!

[Cameron McEwing]

Great image, Rob. I was also caught out by the two IC3322’s, I ended up imaging the wrong target on my first night. I’m hoping to get out to the observatory tomorrow night and image this on the 120mm. I just need to find someone who is keen and accredited. It is almost at peak brightness now. Cameron 🙂

[Cameron McEwing]

Here is my image from Saturday night out at CAS.

This is a stack of 98 x 25 sec, using a Canon 650D (at ISO 6400) on the back of the Skywatcher 120mm f/7.5 ED. There were a few other interesting galaxies in the field. Cameron 🙂

[Preetha Sreedharan]

Great catch Cameron!

[Rob Glassey]

Nice. It turned out well. Nice wide field of view too.

I like NGC4370 too! Looks like a nice target.

 

[John Pickering]

New Supernova.  SN2021jad in NGC 1964.  I captured it on the 29th.  It’s the blue star at 1130.

ps.  I keep having to make the images smaller because of some limit on the upload.  Do others have this issue?

[John Pickering]

I’ve also picked up a Nova in Scorpius.  It’s the mag 8 star in the centre.  I’ve shown an image from the virtual telescope of the area without it.

 

[John Pickering]

Cameron – you displayed a graph of the magnitude changing for 2021hiz – where did you find this?

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