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Originally Posted by SkyViking
Thanks Roger, and that magnitude is certainly fascinating.
With NGC1365 being 56 million light years away I calculate an absolute magnitude of -18.87!
So if SN2012fr was in the place of say Betelgeuse, its apparent magnitude would be -12.39. More or less like the full Moon!  |
That would be bright
I haven't been following closely, I think it is still increasing in bightness isn't it? (It's not just my 12.2 is an error?).
It sometimes takes me a while to catch on to these events, but I have now scripted it in my nightly script, so it will be interesting to graph the brightness over it's life span at the end.
Regards,
Roger.