[PeterM]

[QUOTE=pfitzgerald;1229425]Hi Peter

Great find. If it helps I took a single image of NGC 5128 from 1:37 am to 1:43 am on Saturday 6 February. The image was taken at ISO400 on a Canon 60Da. I've attached a zoomed, cropped jpeg taken from the original RAW file. As you can see, the SN is there. When was your image taken?


Paul this is very useful! Its the first pre discovey image I am aware of. Our discovery image was taken at 11pm last night. The professionals are going nuts with many emails. Seems we got the magnitude somewhat skewed at 14 and more like mag 15.5 ish and im hoping we can be forgiven for that. Can you send me any fits file you have for this image as this may prove very useful to professional astronomers.
Thanks Peter