Watch a star Explode

[Park123]

Hi All,
Maybe I should have posted this under the resent BOSS discovery of SN2012dj but I wanted to draw attention to an event that happened about 73 million years ago that the telescope/camera caught last week and thought it may be of interest.

I managed to capture a before and after image of the universe in action. Attached is an image showing a type Ib/c supernova developing over the space of only a few days. This happened very fast and if you blink you can miss it!!!!
To see this happen over such a short time is what interested me in the sky and astronomy at such a young age.You don’t really need the HST to see cool stuff. To make things even better the BOSS team were the first in the world to see the photons/light that had travelled for so long to reach my telescope WOW.
:eyepop:

[h0ughy]

how great is that - i reckon that should be an APOD

[SkyViking]

That is so awesome Stu, great image and presentation :) I hope you enjoy your good run and long may it continue.

[JB80]

That's brilliant Stu, surely it's one of the reasons why we decide to look up.
Very inspirational stuff.
Thanks for sharing. :)

[Larryp]

Great stuff!

[snas]

COOOOOOOL; that's 8 million years before the end of the dinosaurs

Stuart

[Nortilus]

truly awesome...

[Mick]

What he said, amazing images.

[Miaplacidus]

Forget APOD. It should be on APOM!

[astroron]

Great Stuff Stu,I don't know if that is the first set of images showing a before and after over such a short time:question:, but it is still a spectacular
catch for an amateur astronomer.:)
Cheers:thumbsup:

[venus]

what made you look in NGC 7531? just curious, congratulations though that is truly an amazing capture!

[silv]

yah, I also would like to know what made you look there?

awesome! I've seen a star explode! ayayayyaay! thank you! :jump:

[PeterM]

Hi Lydia and Silv
It is indeed a great capture.
The BOSS team take many thousands of images per month of several hundered target galaxies. Stu doing the bulk of the work with some 3000 images in just a few nights.
The target galaxies are made up largely of spiral galaxies that are typically within about 250million light years. We try to image the script of galaxies regularly with images taken every few days where possible in order to achieve exactly what Stu has done here. This has significant scientific value for professional astronomers who may follow up the supernova. They are keen to know how young the Supernova might be and knowing that it wasn't there (to our magnitude limit) in say the last 7 days is very useful.
So NGC7531 is just one of those many galaxies in our lists that in this case gave very good rewards.

[Suzy]

That's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen!
Just incredible!
Surely that has to be an APOD!
Well done Stu. :thumbsup: