But Joe, they're like the commercial used to say about potato chips: Ya' can't have just one. :) But seriously, a number of the galaxies I check are bright like M82 and I've oft times wondered if I'd miss one in or near the core. Now I have my answer. So next clear night I'm going to experiment with shorter exposures on the brighter galaxies. patrick On 22 Jan 2014, at 21:47, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
Patrick, don't be a hog. You already got one. Leave some for us.
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:28 PM, Jared Smith <jared@smithplanet.com> wrote:
Here's a nice write-up on it - http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2014/01/22/closest-brightest-supernova-in-21-...
It seems there were probably several people that imaged, but didn't detect, this one.
Jared
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
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