BOSS 102 & Not Out!

[PeterM]

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

[astroron (Ron)]

Congratulations Stu,and the BOSS team.
Here's to the next 100.
Cheers

[allan gould]

Well done BOSS and I wish many more SN will fall to the groups dedicated talents.
Allan

[h0ughy (David)]

well done guys

[RB (Andrew)]

Well done and congrats.

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Incredible work, well done to you all!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

What's so hard about finding the most powerful and brightest single light sources in the Universe ...

Just kidding Great stuff, amazing really and clearly some dedication and persistence has paid off for you fellas

Mike

[peterl]

Well done BOSS team and Peter.

Thanks for your dedication and time spent on these discoveries...
Hopefully many more to come..
Peter Langdown

[Rob_K]

Don't know what's more important, the ton-up or the not out! Congratulations on both, who knows what amazing and significant discoveries lie ahead for you all.

Cheers -

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Wow !! Congratulations guys, an outstanding performance. Keep it up and keep us informed and enthralled.

[RickS (Rick)]

Well done BOSS team! Good to see hard work and dedication paying off big time.

[gary]

Congratulations to the team!

[astronobob (Bob)]

Gongratts BOSS group, Quite a bit of Talant, as I have seen you Peter demonstrate at Meet what is involved with setting your System up for just one nights searching of litterally hundreds of Galaxies in a single night. Totally remarkable stuff and so grouse to see you and the team succeeding so well in this field

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Congratulations BOSS team! And stealing them from under the noses of the northern hemisphere too I see at +25 degrees. So double well done.

[CometGuy]

Congrats to Peter, Brendan, Greg, Colin and Stu! Hope your making the most out of these clear skies

Terry

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

I might add that since the beginning of June 2014 Stu is credited with 9 discoveries.

Date           Location     Type    Mag  Name
2014/08/13.731 ESO 87-G31   Ia      17.0 PSN J06363000-6643540 
2014/08/09.764 NGC 1578     Ia      15.8 PSN J04234719-5136029 
2014/08/09.757 NGC 2255     Ia      15.9 PSN J06335776-3448276 
2014/07/20.483 NGC 6808     Ia      15.8 2014bx                
2014/06/23.760 ESO 479-G1   Ic-BL   15.7 PSN J02253046-2537380 
2014/06/22.557 PGC 252921   II      18.1 PSN J21504715-7355334 
2014/06/22.538 PGC 349297   Ia      17.1 PSN J21355236-6205398 
2014/06/20.347 ESO 91-G11   IIb     16.8 PSN J09232955-6340283 
2014/06/01.313 PGC 28871    Ia      18.7 PSN J09592516-0015192

[Steffen]

Originally Posted by mithrandir

I might add that since the beginning of June 2014 Stu is credited with 9 discoveries.

Wow, that's incredible!

Cheers
Steffen.

[Ric]

Great work lads and congrats on number 100.

[Paul Haese]

Well done guys. Certainly an excellent achievement. I hope to hear of many more yet over the ensuing years.