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Old 05-11-2010, 10:50 PM
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New Supernova for the BOSS Team


Hi All,
Just wanted to mention that I managed another Supernova discovery a few days ago at 15.6 mag in IC1615. It was a great team effort many thanks goes out to Peter Marples,Greg Bock Colin Drescher, Julian West.
This discovary took over 4000 images to find since the last one.
Here is the updated info
http://parkdale-supernova-factory.webs.com/latestdiscoverynews.htm

Anyones Pictures would be great!!!! Just send them to Pete or Me


Thanks for looking

Stu Parker

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Old 05-11-2010, 11:00 PM
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Congratulations to all involved

I can appreciate the effort that you chaps put into these searches, there are a lot of long hours for little reward but when you strike gold it suddenly makes it all worth while.

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Aside from the obvious congratulations to Stu for his 11th discovery in less than 2 years there is another interesting note to add, which Stu goes into more detail on his website.
With 15 discoveries that the BOSS team have now been involved with I think we can now blow our own trumpet a bit and mention the professional - amateur collaboration we have had now for sometime with a professional astronomer, Nidia Morrell at Las Campanas observatory in Chile as part of the Carnegie Institute studying supernova. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Campanas_Observatory
Within minutes of my email to our group (& CCing Nidia) Nidia responded noting she was at the Du Pont 2.5 meter (100inch) telescope kindly offering to take a spectra of the suspect object, knowing we had not yet reported it. Within an few hours we had advice of an early type 1a supernova still on the rise. This was valuable information to add to the notification we were about to send to CBAT. This was a win win for everyone involved, Stu his eleventh, the BOSS team as a whole for a job well done and a professional astronomer specifically working in this area. Pro - Am collaboration makes this discovery amongst the sweetest of all. But I must stress this is NOT the procedure to go about reporting a potential discovery. In this case we had done our due diligence, were about to send a report and the spectra was indeed a surprise and came about through a kind offer.

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This was a win win for everyone involved, Stu his eleventh, the BOSS team as a whole for a job well done and a professional astronomer specifically working in this area. Pro - Am collaboration makes this discovery amongst the sweetest of all.


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Pete is right
Nidia is a really great to work with. It certainly makes the long hours well worth it.
An interesting aside here is that a few people have said to me why work with a group and share discoveries etc. Well apart form the obvious of having access to more telescopes for conformations etc. The other side is that it is essential to have support while doing large scale search. Like all the group I have a full time job and I try to fit Astronomy in where I can(well actually I try to fit my job around astronomy according to my wife)I have been doing reasonably large numbers of galaxies and need the back up of others either to kick me in the arse if I get a bit down about not finding a SN or missing a SN to passing on suspect stars and have them looked at by the group. This basically leaves me to keep blinking and I of course will do the same. The good thing is everybody does as much or as little as they want. Also we all get on well which really helps.Not to say we always agree and have some heated emails sometimes but we all bring something different to the table.
Lastly sharing the success with other people that really knows the work that has been done is well really great and as Pete says this SN is one of the sweetest of all!!!!
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Congratulations Stu & team. Fantastic work.
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Congrats to you all - that pros will act on your findings before they are "confirmed" by CBAT speaks volumes for the respect you have earned.

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