From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: May 9, 2011 2:00:58 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Type Ia Supernova

Hi Ron;

Thanks for the heads up..

I'd love to give it a crack, but I can't see the big dipper from my location. It's lost in the Condo roof area.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle

On 9-May-11, at 11:51 AM, cosmicrock2001 wrote:

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

859-257-7147