Alas, I rang JD Armstrong on Maui and he used the Faulkes Telescope North to image 3198 and found nothing new. So my suspect was just a hot pixel after all. Lot's of fun excitement there for a while though. patrick On 17 Apr 2012, at 00:16, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
I got an image of NGC-3198 a few minutes ago that seems to have "something" extra in it that was not in a shot I got of the galaxy a while back.
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/NGC3198.JPG
Of course no sooner did I get the shot than clouds moved in so I can't get another picture to see if the "something" is real or just a "Kodak star" (as we used to call them in the days of film astroimaging).
MPC says there are no know MPs in the area and I can't image I'd be lucky enough to get a supernova, though I did check the list of known new supernovae but found nothing.
So, like the subject line reads: Augh!
patrick (the puzzled)