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Hi Suzy,
I have no problems with what you wish to do with that pic. Just as long as you also credit Noel Munford with it as well.
I thought that you might like to see some of our other efforts as well. They are all scans off photos, so some of them are a bit rough after 25 years. Most of the damage was done in the early years before I knew how to look after them better. I must scan the negs and come up with a better digital set than this. Just another project to tackle soon I guess.
You wanted a pic of Sanduleak before the explosion. It just so happens that on the very first night that we had ouer Society's 12 inch up and running for photography, in time for Halley BTW, we photographed the Tarantula. The film we used was rubbish for astrophotogrphy but we were really only checking the tracking at that stage. Fortunately of the three images we took of the Tarantula prior to Feb 24th 1987, this one had the pre-cursor star in it (arrowed in the picture) taken on Dec 11th, 1985.
The next photo taken 25 years ago tonight shows how blue the S.N. was at first. The colour changed to a beautiful yellow in April & May when it peaked, before going orange and then red as it faded. These changes made it fascinating to follow down to our last photo on March 9th, 1989.
I have also included two versions of one of our widefield shots showing how the S.N. looked to the naked-eye. The second one arrows the S.N. and circles the star (Gamma Hydri) that was equal in brightness to the S.N. at its brightest.
Great memories!
Coops
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