4th Supernova discovery for Peter Marples - PGC8012

[Greg Bock]

HI all,
well, here's another great effort from the BOSS team.
This time, Peter Marples found a 14.9 magnitude SN suspect in a pretty spiral galaxy called PGC8012 in Eridanus.
It's Peter's fourth discovery, the last one being on 9 June 2009 in NGC5967, so it's been a long time between drinks.

Now, it's even more remarkable because only a few minutes earlier in the night, Peter found a new object in IC1810, which upon checking, determined that the Catalina survey had detected this new object only 2 days earlier. So, after an initial flurry of activity around IC1810, he got on with the job of checking his other images and then found this one in PGC8012.

So, effectively, he found 2 new SN in one night!! Fantastic!

After Pete called me to let me know about the new object in PGC8012, I managed to get the confirming image for him within minutes of his discovery, to prove that it wasn't an artefact in his imaging system, and I have posted a copy of my confirming image here for anyone who would like to see it, or image it.

Well done Pete, that makes 31 for the BOSS team now..

After all this, we also discovered that our BOSS mate in NZ, Stu Parker also imaged the new object in IC1810, but was also too late to identify it. So, BOSS efforts almost delivered 2 new SNe in one night. Not a bad effort.

Now, back to blinking my images from last night, I still have 160 to check!.

[h0ughy]

well Done Peter. you guys certainly have the searching down to a fine art now. Glad its paying off for you

[jjjnettie]

:) Thanks for the heads up Greg.
Congratulations Peter!! About time you nabbed another one.

[allan gould]

Well done Peter. And to all the BOSS team. What a valuable resource you all are.

[renormalised]

Great bit of work, congratulations guys:):):):)

[iceman]

Congrats Peter and the boss team. Excellent news!

[brightstar]

Congratulations Pete, I guess I will hear all about it next Saturday. Do you have a degree in Cosmology?:lol:

[[1ponders]]

Great news Peter. Congratulations. :) :clap:

[Kevnool]

Congrats Peter you are the boss.

Cheers Kev.

[CometGuy]

It's about time Marples!

Nicely done :)

Terry

[DavidTrap]

Congrats Peter,

Was out at Leyburn overnight and passed on the news to Mark before we left.

DT

[astroron]

Great News Peter:D
Thanks for the call:thanx:
Cheers :thumbsup:

[RobF]

Way to go Peter! :cheers:

[PeterM]

Thank you all.
As Greg notes I imaged IC1810 last night (3rd image of the night) and got very excited when I spotted a new object and then several minutes later got a bit deflated when it came through as being discovered by The Catalina Real Time Sky Survey.
Looking at my scope and gear under a beautiful sky I quickly came to my senses thinking crap I haven't spent all this money for nothing so I had better do something with it. About a dozen or so images later I find an absolute beauty.
I would like to thank Morm n Dard and all those in the academy....oops sleep deprivation thought I was at the Oscars. Seriously, the BOSS team really work so well together and when the adrenalin rush sets in and you don't know which part of the computer to click on next then Bockie and Colin take over the astrometry and photometry reporting etc it really makes it all a breeze.
Stu's successes are something we all aspire to. Top it off we are all great mates as well.
Thanks guys you and our associates around Oz are a great bunch!
We have received word from 2 major observatories and things are looking very good.
As I predicted my friend Terry finds a comet and soon after I find my next SN!

Peter

[Greg Bock]

HI all,
we have just been advised that Peter's new SN has been measured spectroscopically from Chile not long ago, and has been confirmed as a young type 1a.


Wow, that only took 18 hours from notification to confirmation. Fantastic!!!

So, now the nail-biting wait for proof is over, we can sleep again.
Just have to wait for the CBAT designation now.

According to Nasa data, PGC8012 lies at about 80 Mparsecs (which is 260 million light years), so it is very far away indeed, but because it is a type 1a, it is relatively bright at about 15th mag. for such a distance.

Anyone care to see it visually? If so, you're seeing it as it occurred about 260 Million years ago.

[astroron]

Just made a positive observation of Peter's Supernova. in PGC8012.
I as able to get a number of brief observations using a 6mm Radian 304xmag and a 9mm Nagler 200xmag .
Seeing was about 6-10 but in moments of reasonable seeing was able to get a positive view :D
There is a 7.2 mag star which has to be put out of the field of view to see the galaxy but with the narrow field of the radian was able to positively see the galaxy and Supernova.
Well done again Peter.:thumbsup:
Cheers

[COSMOPARADISE]

WOW!!! Another TOP find. CONGRATULATIONS Peter and BOSS Team.

QLD
THE SMART STATE!!!
:nerd:

[firstlight]

Well done Peter. When I saw the thread, I though that Greg was surging ahead of you. Also congrats to the entire BOSS team, good work all.

[Greg Bock]

Hi Tony,
I'm trying hard to catch him, I guess he got a bit of a motivational bump from my last 2 discoveries :)

Of course, now we will have to update the scoreboard at Astrofest this year, it needs alot of updating now, and hopefully, there will be more to add to it by the next one!! (...but then....who am I to keep score?...)

[Ric]

Congrats to Peter and the team

You guys are going great guns.

Also enjoyed the write up in AS&T

[gary]

Fantastic stuff!

Congratulations to Peter and the BOSS team!

Best Regards

Gary & Mai

[Suzy]

Congratulations Peter! :thumbsup:
I'm having trouble keeping up with all the SNs The BOSS team are finding lately. :lol: Between you guys and Terry, what a HUGE inspiration you guys are for the everyday astronomer. :thumbsup:

Backyard astronomers rock!

[PeterM]

Thank you.
We know it is a type 1a supernova from the spectra taken at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, so we are just waiting the official announcement and designation.
Weather so crap can't even look at my own discovery, was rather hoping to see it visually. Was good that Ron was able to get an eyeball as he does with just about all SN that get bright enough.
Hey Suzy, you, Terry, Greg, Colin, Pat, Brendan, Ron and I = QUEENSLANDER! and of course, Ice In Spacers!
Thanks again.

Peter

[snas]

"Anyone care to see it visually? If so, you're seeing it as it occurred about 260 Million years ago"

So at this time there were reptiles on earth but not yet dinosaurs and mammals still about 60 million years away. And the map of the earth looked......rather different from today's map.

Cool to think about it in this way.

Stuart

[snas]

Oh, and of course, well done Peter and all the rest of the BOSS team!

Stuart (Queenslandargh!) :)

[astroron]

Hi Stu see Here (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=85824)
Post #16
Cheers:thumbsup:

[PeterM]

Well after a nail biting wait my SN discovery in PGC8012 has now been officially designated SN2012U and released on CBET3007 (see below)
http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/003000/CBET003007.txt

Again thanks for all your support of the BOSS team, we are proud to be members of Ice In Space and look forward to the next one.

Peter

[h0ughy]

great birthday present peter;):thumbsup:

[astroron]

Great News Peter:D
I hope to get another look at it again someday :rolleyes:
Cheers :thumbsup:

[PeterM]

Thanks again to those BOSS team.
For those interested here is a recent pic of us (minus Pat Pearl) at the very successful inaugural Australian Astro Imaging Conference (AAIC) held on the Gold Coast last July.
L/R Stu, Greg, Me, Colin & Brendan. Like I noted all proud members of Ice In Space.
Peter

[jjjnettie]

:hi: Hi Guys.

[Greg Bock]

HI jjj, and everyone else who posted here.
I thought I'd provide an updated list of the discoveries by the BOSS team here, for anyone who may be interested.

It's interesting to see that since we presented the BOSS team last year in June at the Astroimaging conference on the Gold Coast, we have added 10 more discoveries in 7 months! Stu, as usual, contributed the lion's share with 7, with 2 from me, and 1 from Peter.

I must admit that back then, I really didn't think that we would have found 10 more, so as you can imagine, we are very happy with these results.

Also, we will be presenting more supernova search efforts at the upcoming NACAA XXV in Brisbane (http://www.nacaa.org.au/2012/about) so hopefully we will have a couple more by then..fingers crossed.

[PeterM]

I imaged PGC8012 and SN2012U last night and after nearly 3 weeks since discovery it is still about as bright as at discovery so should still be a large aperture visual object. Would be interested to know if any picks up.
PeterM

[SkyViking]

A big congratulations to Peter and the team, that's fantastic news - and nearly 2 discoveries in one night, amazing.

[astroron]

I see the BOSS Team get's a mention in this article in SciTecDaily.
https://scitechdaily.com/hubble-gazes-sidelong-at-a-galaxy-where-a-supernova-was-discovered-by-amateur-astronomers/ regarding a Supernova in NGC 3568 in 2014.
The galaxy is in Centaurus.
Well done Team BOSS.