--- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Ah, Maybe that's it -- a star cloud that is both in mine and anyone else's -- well, anyway, it's an interesting exercise.
SN in other galaxies are fascinating. Max zooming in your image - http://www.utahastronomy.com/Joeb/m51color and looking at the arms of M51 in detail, there are pixel points-of-light in each arm. Comparing those pixel points-of-light to detailed Hubble image - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040905.html - amazingly, each one of those pixel light points probably represents an entire open cluster of several hundred OB type stars similar to the Orion Nebula. Makes you ponder just how powerful a supernova is when you compare your image to the relative brightness of sn2005cs at its brightest - http://astron.berkeley.edu/~bait/2005/sn2005-m51.gif (brightest) Glad that SN is over there in M51 (and in the past) and not over here. Pretty cosmic. Enjoy - Canopus56 (Kurt) P.S. To max zoom in on Joe's image, you'll have to right click on the picture and save it your desktop. Use a desktop paint or image utility to view and zoom. The current light curve (v14.3 and dropping) for sn2005cs is at - http://www.astrosurf.com/snweb2/2005/05cs/05csCurv.htm __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/