[PeterM]

Even more emails from more professional astronomers. One describes this an "an unprecedented event". There are a lot of big telescopes looking at this.
The spectra and some early speculation has been sent to CBAT for a CBET to be issued. Once that announcement is officially made I will post it here.

This maybe turn out to be cutting-edge astronomy or maybe Stu found the equivalent of an old peoples home of stars about to go supernova. Either way for a bunch of amateurs to be kept so regularly in the loop by the professional astronomers really says a lot about how valuable amateur work can be. IIS are hearing about this as best we can safely report way ahead of any other astro chat sites and it is months ahead of what could potentially end up in the likes of Sky & Tel and the science journals. So at this stage we can't just copy and paste exactly what the emails we are seeing contain, it's rather like being privvy to a chat group of professional astronomers exchanging data, ideas and speculation.
I wish I could print some of them because you can feel their excitement.

Mike, now would be a good time to do an IIS interview with Stu Parker, he really is at the top of his game.
Australian Sky & Tel should also be looking at an update from Stu and BOSS. Sure blowing our own trumpet but this is amateur astronomy shining.

Thanks to all here for your posts, very much appreciated!

More to come.