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.
PeterM.
