Thanks all for your comments.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
The supernova is obvious, but in my ignorance I'm surprised at how faint it is. Only ever photographed two others. They were brilliant blue and outshone the host galaxy. Perhaps this one is partially obscured by dust, which would account for both the low brightness and the redness. Just making it up.
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It sounds convincing, Mike! Yes, only ever taken one image before with a supernova, when I was first getting into imaging a few years back, and that was a really bright star even with the host galaxy just a fuzzy faint blob. Not sure if the type of supernova's been settled yet with this one either. Presumably that dust has been hampering classification too.
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Originally Posted by alocky
Finally managed a visual observation of this last night. Barry cranked up his 28" to about 1250x and it was visible, and at 650x in the 25" I was able to get it during the steady seeing in between wind gusts.
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Wow! My 14" dob suddenly seems very inadequate!
