[PeterM]

Hi all,

Thanks so much for your responses, greatly appreciated. Last nights image shows this PSN has brightened to mag 14.1r and should be a good visual target and perhaps a spectra could be obtained if suitably equipped. We expect to know more about it after the professionals take spectra in the next few days. Roger Groom has a pre- discovery image and Colin Drescher has produced a nice light curve that Col will post later.

In a nutshell,
8th December Roger and Stu Parker image the galaxy and there was no sign of the PSN down to their limiting magnitude.
14th Rogers pre-discovery image has the PSN at mag 15.5r
16th my discovery image has it at mag 14.8r
18th Rogers image has it at mag 14.3r
19th my image has it at 14.1r

So were are betting it is a type 1a supernova in a very fainter outer spiral arm. Looking so much forward to Martins image to see if it shows the outer arm.

P.S. as per post in another thread, we now know it is a very early type 1a.