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Supernova SN 2014J


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The evening of the 9th of March was cloud free and clear and presented a number of photo opportunities, e.g a double shadow transit of Io and Ganymede, obtaining spectra of Sirius and Betelgeuse (with my newly homemade diffraction grating), Supernova SN 2014J in M82, the planet Mars and a small comet in Gemini. Well the moon put paid to imaging the comet and Mars would not get above my hedges and trees until about 1.00 am. so I decided to save them for a better night later in the month. I had an accident two weeks ago and am nursing two broken ribs and a haematoma in my right bicep so did not fancy staying out later than midnight (when the Council turn off the street lights) which meant that in imaging M82 I would have to contend with light pollution from both Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Anyway, I managed to capture some photons and am currently processing them. All things being equal I'm quite pleased that I could see and image the Supernova ( at my age I might not get to see another one through the eyepiece). The image was created from 9x30sec lights, 3x darks and 3x flats stacked using DeepSkyStacker and finished using APS. I used a Canon 600d DSLR, a Meade 127mm Apo at F7.5 all on a NEQ6 mount (unguided)

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