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The galaxy NGC 3938, lies at 30.7 megaparsec away, putting it at around 65 million light years from our planet. In 2017 a blue supergiant star, located in NGC 3938 went supernova and exploded with the mass of 50 suns in what Astronomers call the force of a Type 1C category supernova explosion!

The amateur-astronomical equipment used, Explorer Scientific F/7, 165mm Triplet APO refractor, a 0.75x focal reducer and ASI2600 CMOS color camera. All stars and galaxies were processed out.

30.7MP equates to 95 M ly since a parsec is 3.2 ly. IIRC. 

On 23/03/2021 at 03:17, skybadger said:

30.7MP equates to 95 M ly since a parsec is 3.2 ly. IIRC. 

I've calculated wrong. I originally picked up the post from https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/astronomers-find-possible-elusive-star-behind-supernova

On 23/03/2021 at 03:17, skybadger said:

30.7MP equates to 95 M ly since a parsec is 3.2 ly. IIRC. 

I need to fix the numbers, let me try again and thank you so much for catching this!!!

Found a space ly to mpc converter, puts it at around 19.292 mpc away. 

Not at all,not trying to be pedantic, just illuminate.