From: "cosmicrock2001" <ursamajor_1@mac.com>
Date: May 9, 2011 11:51:09 AM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Type Ia Supernova
This was posted in on our Denver Astro list. Thought it might be a good target for AstroIIDC photometric work. Ron
---- Forwarded Message ----
From: "Knauer, Timothy G" <tgknau00@email.uky.edu>
To: Jack Eastman <fjackeastman@yahoo.com>; "Mark Bottorff
(bottorfm@southwestern.edu)" <bottorfm@southwestern.edu>
Sent: Tue, May 3, 2011 12:16:15 PM
Subject: Sn2011by
There is a circumpolar (bowl of the big dipper) SN Ia in NGC 3972. It's 13th
magnitude and getting brighter. The distance modulus is 30.7, so it could break
12th mag. It's reasonably well separated from the galaxy core. Actually it
should be bright enough to be seen with the eye in an 8 or 10 inch scope from a
dark site.
-tim
Best Regards,
Tim Knauer
MacAdam Student Observatory, Director
Chem-Phys Room 149
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