[Utah-astronomy] The supernova that got away

After learning about the SN in M82 I went back and looked at images I've taken of M82 over the past several days. I did not see the SN in the normally processed images owing to its being buried so near the core of the galaxy. But by stretching the histogram of each image I saw the SN going back several days from the 16th to last night. Download GIFs of the images here: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/m82_14-22.zip Note that these are GIFs of raw images. No darks or flats applied. I guess I have to count this as the one that got away. :) I'm also thinking I should start using shorter exposures. When I get some times I'll see about "prettying" them up and putting them into an animation. patrick