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  

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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