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[erikruud]

I saw this posted or CN and BA this morning. I don't think I have enough aperture to see it yet.

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As soon as my power supply comes in for my camera it's on!

[Paulie pchris00]

Mar 20, 2012 13:45:41 GMT -6 -=CROMAN=- said:

As soon as my power supply comes in for my camera it's on!

[atomant]

Dug thru photos I took of M95 on March 13, 2012.
Mars luckily wasn't too close to interfere.

The M95 galaxy is pretty small
compared to other galaxy with supernova,M101.

Here is shot thru 1134mm scope.


Here cropped and contrast boosted.
Marks noting upcoming supernova.


Shot from fellow imager days after.


Get your light buckets and hi power eyepieces ready!

[Paulie pchris00]

Freaky.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Best Earth Bound shot of the M95 SuperNova...

M95 supernova news: progenitor found!

This is not from Hubble! It’s from Adam Block, who took it using the 0.8 meter (32") Schulman Telescope at Mt. Lemmon on March 20. The supernova is the bright bluish star sitting on a spiral arm to the right and just below the core of the galaxy.

M95 is a relatively nearby barred spiral galaxy just about 37 million light years away, so we can see a lot of detail in it. In fact, it’s close enough that with big telescopes, individual stars can be seen in it. Once the supernova was spotted and its location determined, astronomers found a picture of M95 taken with Hubble a few years ago, long before the supernova event, and combed through it. Sure enough, they found a star sitting right where the supernova went off! It’s almost certainly the progenitor of SN2012aw.

blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/23/more-m95-supernova-news-progenitor-found/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29