Great efforts guys and yes Mark you have it. Shame its not a visual target.
The Bright Supernova Page wants images for a timeline and pre discovery even if there was no SN a month prior would be great. Please supply date and UT taken and send to link I posted earlier in thread.
Brisbane Times did an interview earlier for an article and I gave IIS a big plug.
Thanks for all your great comments. Sincerely appreciated.
No drama at all Suzy - am happy to share it so that others get to see it.
Paul
PS I had brief thoughts to drag the gear out to have another go last night. The mind was willing, but the flesh was week. Slept like a baby for 9.5 hrs last night!
Here is my image of the NGC5128 SN2016adj, taken last night from my backyard observatory. Details of the image are: Scope RC08 on a NEQ6 mount, camera Canon 450D Full Spectrum and cold finger modified, 20 * 360" guided subs shot at ISO1600 with sensor temperature set at 1C. Stacked in DSS with Darks,Flats, and Bias/offset frames all at the same sensor temperature.
I have added a couple of arrows to show the location of the SN and adjacent star. I noticed that in mine I am seeing an orange tinge to the SN, perhaps the nature of my camera spectrum range. As usual with RCs the diffraction of bright stars can get in the way of small details like the gap, still it looks ok and has not been overly stretched, just auto leveled in Photoshop and a crop to keep the size down.
Here is my image of the NGC5128 SN2016adj, taken last night from my backyard observatory. Details of the image are: Scope RC08 on a NEQ6 mount, camera Canon 450D Full Spectrum and cold finger modified, 20 * 360" guided subs shot at ISO1600 with sensor temperature set at 1C. Stacked in DSS with Darks,Flats, and Bias/offset frames all at the same sensor temperature.
I have added a couple of arrows to show the location of the SN and adjacent star. I noticed that in mine I am seeing an orange tinge to the SN, perhaps the nature of my camera spectrum range. As usual with RCs the diffraction of bright stars can get in the way of small details like the gap, still it looks ok and has not been overly stretched, just auto leveled in Photoshop and a crop to keep the size down.
The red/orange colour is because the supernova is embedded in the dust of the galaxy,which is called extinction,just like the sun is red in the evening sky low down on the horizon, small dust particles darken the light toward the red.
Nice pic BTW.
Cheers
No drama at all Suzy - am happy to share it so that others get to see it.
Paul
PS I had brief thoughts to drag the gear out to have another go last night. The mind was willing, but the flesh was week. Slept like a baby for 9.5 hrs last night!
Thank you Paul , the fb post is doing quite well I'm pleased to see, in getting the news out there.
Hey, you deserve some sleep, you have been a real star, pardon the pun . What a thrill having that pic from Feb 6th and you were getting out there each moment you had.
Ron- that's a great and simple explanation re the colour . I may need to nick it on future fb posts on the sn .
Thanks Paul! I took the two pictures, overlaid them in Photoshop CS2 in separate layers, opened the 'animation' mini-window, and made two frames in there, timed to run for two seconds each. Make the relevant layer visible for each timestep. Then 'Save for Web' and save as a .gif.
Hope that helps!
Some more Atels recently released on this Supernova bringing that to 11 which is quite amazing. One professional astronomer calls it a "weird and interesting object".
Just curious, David Malin took a world famous image of Bob Evans supernova SN1986G I wonder if there might be a bit of a soft spot there for some nice images for the next Malin awards... just throwing it out there.
Seems there is much on going follow up from the professional community and we are hoping that since SWIFT has already been used the discovery is worthy of The Hubble Space Telescope being used.
Its fantastic that a number of Ice In Space imagers have submitted pre and post discovery images to the Bright Supernova sub page that is plotting a timeline of when the event occured. I have no doubt the value of these images will be used by astronomers who will be following this for sometime. Indeed congratulations to them as Google searches show some of those images popping up all over the place.
Seen some really nice pics from well known astroimagers like Damian Peach also.
I think that amateur astronomers here, whether beginners or well established should be very excited that this hobby allows you the opportunity to link with professional astronomers and add to the science of this wonderful hobby as recent discoveries by Mike Sidinio and Terry Lovejoy have shown.
Also to Mike Salway creator of this great resource that allows us all a means to communicate, learn and share
thanks indeed!
I took one last night when I was up in Heathcote. The first one I took it didn't show so I refocused and it appears that I didn't end up saving the second shot... Which actually showed the SN
Hi Peter - we have a visual observation. Last night both Barry and I wound our scopes out as far as we could (the shortest fl I had with me was 6mm!) and we both saw it at 1245x in the 28", then at 600x in the 25". Seeing and transparency were both exceptional, wind was an issue though. Especially 6' off the ground on a ladder...
Only proof we had was neither revealed the position angle until after we both thought we had it- we agreed with each other, then I checked this morning and it's the right spot. Fov was too narrow to make any meaningful magnitude estimates, but it was very difficult.
Cheers,
Andrew.
Hi Peter - we have a visual observation. Last night both Barry and I wound our scopes out as far as we could (the shortest fl I had with me was 6mm!) and we both saw it at 1245x in the 28", .
hope it brightens.
, the fb post is doing quite well I'm pleased to see, in getting the news out there. 
. What a thrill having that pic from Feb 6th and you were getting out there each moment you had. 
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