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OK guys,
so, here is the back-story summary. As you can see, it was a very lucky find for me because:
1. The galaxy is only high enough above the trees and house for about 1 hour per night between rising and setting
2. We had lot of broken cloud that night, so many of my images were cloud affected,
3. I wasn’t using my normal camera as it is in the US being repaired
4. I wasn’t running my normal search program. Instead, I was running a test program in an effort to try to isolate an on-going software problem that I have had for months that is stopping me from using it more effectively,
5. The supernova was in the third image of about 50 for the night of which only the first 15 were OK, the others were no good due to my software problem and I deleted them
6. Just before deleting the remaining 15, I glanced through them as a quick check to see if anything was obvious, and the bright object near IC4901 caught my eye
7. After I checked for asteroids and any previous discovery announcements for the new object, I texted BOSS members, and Peter was only just able to take a confirming image of it 20 degrees above the horizon. It set too low for him not long after he obtained that image.
8. After the discovery, it has been mostly cloudy, so if I didn’t find it on the night, I was probably never going to find it.
So, talk about “count your lucky stars!”..whew….
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