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Originally Posted by gary
Happy New Year David,
Payback for 1987A perhaps?
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Hello Gary
Naaaaaaah, sn1987a doesn't come close to being topped
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Us southerners can claim that until someone is lucky enough to see another naked eye supernova in their lifetime
. You've got to feel sorry for them though- I thought comet ISON would've been a good payback but it went poof!
SN1987a is my weakness- I collect, read, anything I can of it. Fond memories!
Our Tom Harradine took a pic of sn1987a- awesome naked eye display isn't it?! With his permission, I got a huge print done of this.
Meanwhile back on topic...
There's a delightfully interesting story involving the discovery of this supernova. Thanks to fellow IIS'er Carl Gruber for posting in the Comet Watch group I admin on fb.
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The discovery was a fluke – a 10 minute telescope workshop for undergraduate students that led to a global scramble to acquire confirming images and spectra of a supernova in one of the most unusual and interesting of our near-neighbour galaxies.
Read more here:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps-faculty/ma...ation/maps1405
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