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More news on M66 Supernova
Hi All,
Brian Skiff on the AMASTRO mailing list has today indicated:
"CBET 1874 reports that a spectrum with the 2-m telescope near Hanle
in northern India shows that this is a reddened type-II supernova.
Thus though one might have hoped for a bright supernova,
it probably won't get much brighter than it is at present."
It would seem therefore that this is an obscured (reddened) TII event (core implosion of a red supergiant) dimmed by gas & dust in M66 and therefore won't achieve the brightness it might have otherwise.
Best,
Les D
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