M65 with Sn 2013am

[stardust steve (Steve)]

Hi. I was determined to image last night, moon or no moon. I has just heard of a new Supernova and was keen to give it a go.
I had a challenging time processing these as the Moon was not that far away from the triplet and was limiting my exp length ( that and the alignment was off) and i am enjoying imaging galaxies lately


500D-NEQ6 pro-SW 8'' f5 Newt. Total of 58 min consisting of a few 180 sec, a few 120 sec at iso 800 and the rest 30 sec iso 1600. Darks and flats of unequal exp and iso used.
Cheers.
Steve.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Excellent capture Steve. Shows it well...

[FranckiM06]

Wow, great opportunity with this supernova.
Franck

[Astropleiades]

Hello,


One new supernovae again! Is it the first of a long list (we're just in March) ?...

Beautiful photo. Congratulations to the photographer.


Astro-frendly,
Astropleiades

[astronobob (Bob)]

Top Result Steve, nicely processed !

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Nice one Stephen,

I'm a little disappointed as I imaged this galaxy on the 25th Jan and there was no trace of this SN......

All a matter of timing I suppose.

I have overlaid my image of M65 onto yours to show the comparison between the SN as it is now and the galaxy as imaged on 25th Jan at 2:30am onwards AEST.

I am not sure if there is a little bit of brightening in the area or not?

I hope you don't mind, I thought it was an interesting comparison.

Cheers

Chris

[stardust steve (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Astroman

Excellent capture Steve. Shows it well...

Thanks Astroman I went hard on the sharpening to get as munch out of it as possible. Prob a bit too heavy handed, see what i can do pending a repro. Love repros

Originally Posted by FranckiM06

Wow, great opportunity with this supernova.
Franck

Thanks, i had doubts with the Moon doing it's thing and am happy to get something.

Originally Posted by Astropleiades

Hello,


One new supernovae again! Is it the first of a long list (we're just in March) ?...

Beautiful photo. Congratulations to the photographer.


Astro-frendly,
Astropleiades

Thank you Astropleiades, we have been reward with many astro goodies lately

Originally Posted by astronobob

Top Result Steve, nicely processed !

Cheers Bob, i'm enjoying it. It's great i can see some results of many months of trail and error...mostly error

[stardust steve (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Screwdriverone

Nice one Stephen,

I'm a little disappointed as I imaged this galaxy on the 25th Jan and there was no trace of this SN......

All a matter of timing I suppose.

I have overlaid my image of M65 onto yours to show the comparison between the SN as it is now and the galaxy as imaged on 25th Jan at 2:30am onwards AEST.

I am not sure if there is a little bit of brightening in the area or not?

I hope you don't mind, I thought it was an interesting comparison.

Cheers

Chris

Hi Chris, nope don't mind a bit. It's great to see comparisons. I'm no expert but it looks like there is something there in your image in the exact same position just very faint.
I used unsharp mask to sharpen it a bit ( prob went too far) and i found just doing that brightened the areas along with the general level adjustments.
I would like to add to the data as always and make things a bit easier to process.
Here is the reference images i used
before http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/wordp..._26dec2011.jpg

and afterhttp://www.virtualtelescope.eu/wordp..._22mar2013.jpg