PeterM
02-07-2014, 09:04 PM
Hi all,
As I sit her in my observatory taking multiple galaxy images in the hunt for Supernova I would like proudly announce that the BOSS team have reached a milestone on the 22nd June with its 100th Supernova discovery in just 6 short years.
The galaxy that hosted this event was PGC25292, the magnitude of the supernova was one of our fainter discoveries at 18.1 mag.
It was the teams prolific discoverer Stu Parker from New Zealand who made this 100th discovery thus becoming his 83rd personal discovery of the 100. Allowing for shared discoveries the rest were made up by myself with 10, Greg Bock with 7 and Brendan Downs with 2. Colin Drescher and Pat Pearl are the other members of the BOSS team who have contributed in so many ways and without their valuable input we would have been a long way back.
Excuse me for blowing a trumpet here but this is an even more remarkable achievement in that it was accomplished by 6 amateur astronomers from 2 countries working as a team.
BOSS grew out of many years of personal searching that was really going nowhere. And now since pooling ideas, using technology, the contacts made and just being available at any hour to support each other, we have accomplished much.
The professional contacts we have made and the science papers on more than 6 of our discoveries that have been written is just mind blowing. Infact something is in the wind at the moment and when I can I will announce it, did I say Hubble...oops
Suffice to say that the number of professional astronomers who have contacted us with congratulatory emails one even noting "looking forward to working with you on the next 100" was more than sufficient reward for the hundreds of thousands of images taken.
A big thank you to the members here on Ice In Space, we have received great encouragement and feedback.
We now try to keep the announcements here to discoveries that have gotten excitement from the professionals or the brighter ones that many here could easily follow.
Of course the next milestone will be Stu's 100th personal discovery which we are all looking forward to in the next 6-12months and is likely to end up in a team pup in New Zealand....
Oh and Stu has just found 2 more... he is on fire.
Nuff said... over to you Stu
Cheers
Peter
As I sit her in my observatory taking multiple galaxy images in the hunt for Supernova I would like proudly announce that the BOSS team have reached a milestone on the 22nd June with its 100th Supernova discovery in just 6 short years.
The galaxy that hosted this event was PGC25292, the magnitude of the supernova was one of our fainter discoveries at 18.1 mag.
It was the teams prolific discoverer Stu Parker from New Zealand who made this 100th discovery thus becoming his 83rd personal discovery of the 100. Allowing for shared discoveries the rest were made up by myself with 10, Greg Bock with 7 and Brendan Downs with 2. Colin Drescher and Pat Pearl are the other members of the BOSS team who have contributed in so many ways and without their valuable input we would have been a long way back.
Excuse me for blowing a trumpet here but this is an even more remarkable achievement in that it was accomplished by 6 amateur astronomers from 2 countries working as a team.
BOSS grew out of many years of personal searching that was really going nowhere. And now since pooling ideas, using technology, the contacts made and just being available at any hour to support each other, we have accomplished much.
The professional contacts we have made and the science papers on more than 6 of our discoveries that have been written is just mind blowing. Infact something is in the wind at the moment and when I can I will announce it, did I say Hubble...oops
Suffice to say that the number of professional astronomers who have contacted us with congratulatory emails one even noting "looking forward to working with you on the next 100" was more than sufficient reward for the hundreds of thousands of images taken.
A big thank you to the members here on Ice In Space, we have received great encouragement and feedback.
We now try to keep the announcements here to discoveries that have gotten excitement from the professionals or the brighter ones that many here could easily follow.
Of course the next milestone will be Stu's 100th personal discovery which we are all looking forward to in the next 6-12months and is likely to end up in a team pup in New Zealand....
Oh and Stu has just found 2 more... he is on fire.
Nuff said... over to you Stu
Cheers
Peter