Hi all,
well, this is my 4th supernova discovery in just over 12 months since October last year, and it makes the 47th for BOSS.
I'm glad to say that the Aussie contingent of the BOSS team is picking up the pace a little at last!
Last night, I had taken about 140 galaxy images, and I discovered this new supernova after cheking about 70 images, at about magnitude 17.4R in a very pretty spiral galaxy that lies about 250 million light years away.
While I was checking those galaxy images, the scope was also taking a series of images of the new supernova, 2012fr in NGC1365. I had just finished about 17 minutes worth of images of NGC1365 when I had to stop imaging that galaxy and turn the scope onto a new faint object just west of the nucleus of NGC7298 that had just shown up in one of my SN search images .
It was just as well that I did that because NGC7298 was at a very low elevation of 25 degrees and setting slowly behind the observatory wall.
Luckily, I managed to get 18 30 second images under poor seeing conditions before it set behind the wall that were good enough to show that the new object was still visible, 3 hours after I had originally imaged it.
My luck also stretched out to tonight as well. I have just received advice that an Italian team imaged the new supernova 5 hours after I lodged the report on the Central Bureau's TOCP website. They report that the new object is a highly reddened type II supernova a few days after explosion.
If you wish to see this one, i have provided a finder chart here.
Also, it seems that we haven't kept up to date with the last 3 discoveries of the BOSS team. Sorry about that, I guess we have all been very busy lately.
If you would like to see some details of our previous discoveries, please visit our website here for the latest list of our discoveries.
STOP PRESS - my latest images of the new supernova show that it is brightening quite fast..will post the latest pic as soon as i can.
http://bosssupernova.com/
Clear skies,