[PeterM]

Some more Atels recently released on this Supernova bringing that to 11 which is quite amazing. One professional astronomer calls it a "weird and interesting object".

Just curious, David Malin took a world famous image of Bob Evans supernova SN1986G I wonder if there might be a bit of a soft spot there for some nice images for the next Malin awards... just throwing it out there.

Seems there is much on going follow up from the professional community and we are hoping that since SWIFT has already been used the discovery is worthy of The Hubble Space Telescope being used.

Its fantastic that a number of Ice In Space imagers have submitted pre and post discovery images to the Bright Supernova sub page that is plotting a timeline of when the event occured. I have no doubt the value of these images will be used by astronomers who will be following this for sometime. Indeed congratulations to them as Google searches show some of those images popping up all over the place.

Seen some really nice pics from well known astroimagers like Damian Peach also.

I think that amateur astronomers here, whether beginners or well established should be very excited that this hobby allows you the opportunity to link with professional astronomers and add to the science of this wonderful hobby as recent discoveries by Mike Sidinio and Terry Lovejoy have shown.

Also to Mike Salway creator of this great resource that allows us all a means to communicate, learn and share
thanks indeed!