I hope you don't mind be indulging, but I found some old film images I took in 1986 and 1987. Please go gently on me. I know they are pretty poor images, but they were scanned from original prints of mine.
This is SN1987a from February 1987, my only image of it, taken using an Olympus OM-1, possibly Kodachrome 400 (cannot confirm this), non-hypered (but probably cooled in the fridge prior to loading). Exposure times unknown.
I hope you don't mind be indulging, but I found some old film images I took in 1986 and 1987. Please go gently on me. I know they are pretty poor images, but they were scanned from original prints of mine.
This is SN1987a from February 1987, my only image of it, taken using an Olympus OM-1, possibly Kodachrome 400 (cannot confirm this), non-hypered (but probably cooled in the fridge prior to loading). Exposure times unknown.
I found quite a few slides tucked away in a draw, and amongst them is a another series of Supernova 1987a. This is one of them. Obviously the technical quality should not be compared to today's CCD efforts. This was taken on slide film and scanned to a jpg image. I'm impressed with the magnitude of it. I hope that anyone who has started in this hobby since SN1987a will get the chance to witness a supernova this bright in their lifetime.
