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 I try to log my observing and related activities in a regular blog - sometimes there will be a delay but I usually catch up. An index of all my blogs is on the main menu at the top of the page with daily, weekly or monthly views. My Twitter feed is below. I am also interested in photograping wildlife when I can and there is a menu option above to look at some of my images. I try to keep the news feeds from relevant astronomical sources up to date and you will need to scroll down to find these.

The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.

 

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Thursday
Mar082012

Missed Supernova 

DateThursday, March 8, 2012 at 1:34PM

I was checking through a list of recent supernova discoveries and realised that I had imaged one galaxy several times that contains a faint supernova that I did not spot when checking my images.

My image of 23rd February 2012 shows the supernova in the galaxy NGC 2755

The massive star (more than 10 times that of the Sun) that formed the Type II supernova had not exploded on 31st January 2012 as my image of that date shows.

 

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