Call for Eta Carinae Nebula images

[Rob_K]

Hi all - there has been a new galactic classical nova discovered on the 'outskirts' of the Eta Carinae Nebula, currently designated ASASSN-18fv. It's now in the mag 6s or brighter.
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=11454

Just interested in any shots of EC taken in the last few nights that might show the nova brightening. Images back to 14-15 Mar would be helpful. A guide shot of mine is attached, for the location - forgive the roughie!!

Pm or post here if you can help - thanks!

Cheers -

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Cool. I'll have to try for it. Thanks.

[Imme (Jon)]

I took some shots on the night of the 18th if they're of interest.......image posted on here

I also took 3 minute subs from 11pm-5:30am last night so will have a look through them when I get home tonite.

Let me know if they're of interest

[Rob_K]

I think Alex may have captured it in his post on 18 Mar, starting to rise, but I'll have to double-check it. If it is, it would be the earliest image of it I think. Do you have a date and time for that shot Alex? Thanks.

Edit: Yes, that is definitely the new nova Alex, congratulations! THe ASAS-SN survey first picked it up at about 6:47pm our time (AEDST) on 16 March, even though it wasn't announced until yesterday. Yours will at least be the first known image outside the discovery survey (so far) but IISers may be able to go back further again!

Cheers -

[Icearcher (Chris)]

I have wide field shots from the weekend of that area, Ill crop and process tonight and upload tonight.

I should also, maybe, have some exact timings for the shots as well.

[PKay (Peter)]

For what it's worth, this image was taken 15-10-2017.

The area of interest is right on the bottom frame (maybe).

I added the yellow line.

Can see something, but don't know.

[xelasnave]

This is the area from my one of my images I have not had a chance to look at much I am a little busy.
alex

[chromus (Phil)]

I got a little heavy handed with the saturation slider but was playing around with the limited data from my 8"SCT in DSS, not other processing

[Rob_K]

Originally Posted by PKay

For what it's worth, this image was taken 15-10-2017.

The area of interest is right on the bottom frame (maybe).

I added the yellow line.

Can see something, but don't know.

Thanks Peter! Just the barest miss on this one, see attached.

Cheers -

[Rob_K]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

This is the area from my one of my images I have not had a chance to look at much I am a little busy.
alex

Thanks Alex, understood. I've marked the nova in your image - it is MUCH brighter than that now. I make your shot out at around mag 9.6, give or take. If you find time to get the exact time off your subs, or even a guess at date/time, that would be great. Thanks again!

Cheers -

[Rob_K]

Originally Posted by chromus

I got a little heavy handed with the saturation slider but was playing around with the limited data from my 8"SCT in DSS, not other processing

Thanks very much for that Phil! The nova is outside the field unfortunately, nice work anyway!

Cheers -

[RichardJ (Richard)]

My images from last Saturday night (17/3/18). Taken at 21.00.
Can provide full resolution images or subs if needed.

RichardJ

[AndyG (Andy)]

Hi Rob,

Sorry if this is poor quality. It's literally my 10th AP shot in my life.

15th March 10pm.
Canon 300D, 1min exposure, ISO "H" (The max setting after 1600).
It's just a Nexstar 6, driven by an idiot Hope it helps somehow

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5x822ektox..._2393.JPG?dl=0

[VPAstro (Andrew and Cam)]

Hi Guys,
Here is a quick LRGB image of ASASSN-18fv taken between 9.00pm and 10.00pm tonight (22-03-2018).
This is 10min of exposure for each of LRGB through an SBIG ST2000xm on a skywatcher ED80 refractor.
Hope it is useful in some way

[xelasnave]

12.18 am 18-3-2018
First capture cropped but unprocessed.
alex

[xelasnave]

11-34 pm 19-3-2018

[PKay (Peter)]

Here's hoping Alex!

Time to buy a lottery ticket ??

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

Rob,

I have images taken on 23rd December 00:00-00:30hrs EDST.
Doesn't show anything at the location. The attached image is cropped and with high compression to fit file size restrictions.

Joe

[xelasnave]

This is from 19th a small stack at 400 iso
second one is a little later

[PKay (Peter)]

Amazing Alex!

I noticed the title of the last image.

How about 'xelasnova.jpg for the next one