BOSS Supernova 35

[PeterM]

Stu Parker made his 27th supernova discovery (and the BOSS teams 35th) a few nights ago in PGC926 aka ESO50-006 - a pretty galaxy in Tucana.

The positional data and magnitude were obtained by Greg Bock from BOSS and glowing at magnitude 14.4 it is well within visual reach of amateurs suitably equipped. When IISpacers visit the BOSS site below and see the location of the SN in this neat galaxy I am sure the imagers here will be keen to present some images, perhaps even in colour.

So congratulations to Stu who is recovering from recently knocking himself out for 5 minutes on his NZ farm.

Already our pro-am collaboration is well underway on this with our astronomer friends at Las Campanas in Chile and we hope to soon have this event typed and an official designation attached to the discovery.



Details for PGC926 (see Stu Parker's image below).

Bright possible supernova candidate in PGC926, TOCP-PSN J00135630-7001407) discovered June 26th 2012 at mag 14.4 in the constellation Tucana.

http://www.bosssupernova.com/

http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/



There is also another bright supernova in ESO185-54 (PGC64041 see image I took last night below) in our southern skies (mag14.5). It was only recently discovered, as of yet we are not sure who discovered this one.

So IIS imagers, over to you with 2 bright targets in the southern skies.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

And the skies have cleared just in time for it too.
But there'll be no joy from Kilcoy, we're having a pea souper tonight.

Congratulations Stu, well done.
Bravo to all the BOSS team for their backup and support.

[astroron (Ron)]

Well done Stu and the BOSS team
Peter those two SN could be in the range of my 16"
Will giveit a go when I get the chance,like Jeanette
Pea souper tonight
Cheers

[rogerg (Roger)]

Congrats guy's

Here's a pre-discovery image of the supernova from 21-June-2012 20:00:08 (UT).

I also have an image of it from the following night (22nd June).

Usual problem, 540 images from the night to blink, think I got sick of blinking them 20 minutes in and gave up, probably before this one was linked, and haven't even blinked images from the 22nd yet, have some others to check which I presume are artifacts but haven't done that yet ... ahh well, can only do what we can do

Will shoot you the FITs & JPGs of this one later today Peter.

[PeterM]

Hi Roger,
I know how you feel when you have heaps of images to blink. As Maxwell Smart says "missed it by that much". Well you are on the right track and I can feel a RG SN coming on real soon!
Now that pre-discovery image will no doubt be very valuable in plotting the rise and age of this SN. When you send the FITs I will get Greg and Col to do the data and send it onto our contacts at Las Campanas observatory.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Also somewhat interesting I have images of PGC 64041 from 22nd without it's new SN, so that one is more recent. I noticed it today when blinking last night's images which show it.