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Originally Posted by OICURMT
Sound incredibly irresponsible to not check before spewing out an alarm.
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Agreed, and that is the concern here, not at all that he didn't know what was in the Sky at the time, that can be forgiven. Geez I would be hard pressed without checking.
I can understand some over eagerness to report but that has to be held back while diligence is applied.
To go straight to an Atel and announce it ..AND with credential certification given is beyond me.
BOSS has had 178 announcements through CBETS & Atels, we are looking at faint stuff and to date not one wrong report. Indeed, even before Greg Bock and I announced the SN in NGC5128 (sn2016adj) we went through the pain and process knowing full well that it might be announced by someone else before us.
The late great Brian Marsden would be turning in his grave.
In 1997 he chastised 2 amateur astronomers in IAU circulars 6736 & 6737 over sloppy work when they didn't check for minor planets before announcing 2 "supernova" discoveries in one galaxy.
I reckon sloppy use of a very useful tool in the ATels.