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Offline jkmorse

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Serendipity
« on: 2014 March 07 05:57:15 »
Hey Folks,

I was just reading about the SN discovered in late January in M82 and thought to myself, wait a minute, I imaged that around that time!  I was actually cramming both M81 and M82 into the same frame and hadn't really focused on the galaxy interiors other than to get the colors right.  But then I went back and blew up M82 and, sure enough, there it was.  This image was taken over two nights on January 31-Feb. 1, about 10 days after the SN was discovered in England: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByrTommGQM20YzJYUHpKSlljRGc/edit?usp=sharing

You just never know what you are going to find out there  :)

Best,

Jim

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Offline bianry

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Re: Serendipity
« Reply #1 on: 2014 March 07 07:20:45 »
Nice!
I took a one-shot color image as one of my first images testing out iTelescope. It happened to be M82 and a friend pointed out that the nova was visible in the image.

regards

mats
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