Congratulations to Brendan Downs of Thunderchild Observatory on his discovery of a magnitude 17.3 Supernova in IC4854 in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Catalogued as 2010dc, this is Brendan's 2nd Supernova after a long drought. As I have noted before it doesn't surprise me that he has another and I predict there will be many more, much quicker. He now has the equipment, but more importantly he has the passion and support to be even more successful.
Three cheers Brendan, the monopoly has been broken, for now.... (hehe).
More details can be found here.
http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/
PeterM.