Supernova 2009J

[astroron (Ron)]

Queensland Astronomer Peter Marples and the CHASE Supernova search team have Co discovered a Supernova in IC 2160.
Peter was assisted by two Queensland Astronomers Colin Drescher and Greg Bock to confirm his discovery.
The Supernova was discovered on January the fourteenth using a CCD camera.
At 17.5 mag the Supernova is only visible in very large amateur telescopes or imaging
The discovery was confirmed today by CBAT
Congratulations Peter

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Getting to become a bit of a habit Peter. Fantastic and congratulations.

[allan gould]

Well done Peter. Soon you'll be able to auction these off on IIS.

[ngcles]

Hi Ron & All,

A BIG well done to the whole team involved in the discovery of 2009J.

Top stuff fellas !!


Best,

Les D

[PeterM]

Thank you all and thanks Ron for putting this thread up.
My discovery is an independent discovery. The CHASE team in Chile discovered the Supernova on the 13th a day prior to my discovery, but it had not been announced when I made my discovery. I thank and give credit where it is due to some fine Australian amateur astronomers - the likes of Greg Bock, Colin Drescher, Steve Quirk, Pat Pearl and Brendan Downs who all took my calls late at night and went to great deal of trouble to get a precise position, magnitude etc and gave me valuable advices. Anyways here is a stack of 3 of my 25 second images put together by Greg Bock noting the position of the Supernova.
PeterM

[renormalised (Carl)]

Great work, Peter

Very well done

Have they manage to identify what type it is, yet??

[MrB (Simon)]

Congrats Peter.
Please forgive my ignorance of matters SN, but does the 'J' suffix mean that it's the 10th SN discovered thus far this year??
WOW

[coldspace]

Great news, Keep up with it.

Matt.

[PeterM]

Seems it is a type 1a - white dwarf star blowing itself to bits after accreting too much matter from a larger companion star or maybe 2 white dwarfs stars colliding. Yes Simon the letter J means the 10th for this year. After Z it then starts at aa (the 27th SN of the year) and so on.
PeterM

[renormalised (Carl)]

Type 1a.... it's a very interesting process to read and learn about, the detonation of a white dwarf. Amazing just how quickly it occurs...happens in milliseconds. Goes off faster than det' cord!!.

[astro_south (Andrew)]

Nice one Peter

[glenc (Glen)]

Congratulations Peter and the team.

[nightsky]

G'Day,
Great stuff Peter and to the other lads for there help
Cheers
Arthur