MarsG76 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Hello Astronomers, Does anyone know where to report a potentially supernova discovery? Last night I was imaging the Carina Nebula at 2032mm, my ongoing SHO image project, and on the very last 1800s sub through the SII filter of the night, I noticed that there is a extra star near Eta Carina that was not on any of the the previous 30min subs, as marked on the subs attached. I have the RAW images for astronomical observatories for verification... Thanks in advance for any help or advise. MG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allinthehead Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 I think you have. Either that or someone turned their lights on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RolandKol Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Have you tried to plate solve it at http://astrometry.net/ first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkpm4242 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 https://www.iau.org/public/themes/discoveries/ IAU (edit; beaten to it...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyD Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 International Astronomical Union Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saganite Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 I hope you have !! Good luck.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsG76 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 14 minutes ago, RolandKol said: Have you tried to plate solve it at http://astrometry.net/ first? This never worked for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsG76 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 14 minutes ago, clarkpm4242 said: https://www.iau.org/public/themes/discoveries/ IAU (edit; beaten to it...) 14 minutes ago, MarkyD said: International Astronomical Union I found a bunch of astronomy associations, including on IAU, and sent an email to them, see what develops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan potts Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Good luck, hope you have found it. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoflewis Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Good luck and I hope that you are right, but first please let us know how you spotted it as I'm sure that I wouldn't have noticed one extra tiny star in that field? Pity that it was your final frame of the session as it would be good to see if it remained / got brighter in subsequent frames. I'm looking forward to hearing how this develops. Cheers, Geof Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjw Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 How exciting. I imaged Carina two days ago and we have another clear night in Melbourne. I have just started imaging again! By the way, how do you notice something like this?! Good luck - hope you are right. HJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demonperformer Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 This looks exciting. It is definitely brighter than the two faint stars to the left of it, both of which appear in the previous image, so it looks hopeful to me. Keep us informed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsG76 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 6 minutes ago, geoflewis said: Good luck and I hope that you are right, but first please let us know how you spotted it as I'm sure that I wouldn't have noticed one extra tiny star in that field? Pity that it was your final frame of the session as it would be good to see if it remained / got brighter in subsequent frames. I'm looking forward to hearing how this develops. Cheers, Geof Basically I was flicking from sub to sub to see how much movement there was between subs, and it just popped out at me... its quite obvious on the 10 megapixel image on my 30" monitor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsG76 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 7 minutes ago, hjw said: How exciting. I imaged Carina two days ago and we have another clear night in Melbourne. I have just started imaging again! By the way, how do you notice something like this?! Good luck - hope you are right. HJ See if you have the extra star on your subs... I noticed it, as stated above, on my 30" monitor flicking from sub to sub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsG76 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, Demonperformer said: This looks exciting. It is definitely brighter than the two faint stars to the left of it, both of which appear in the previous image, so it looks hopeful to me. Keep us informed. Of course I'll update here with any news.... good or bad if I get a reply from any astronomy organization... surely one of the astro sites I emailed has to reply.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoflewis Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, MarsG76 said: Basically I was flicking from sub to sub to see how much movement there was between subs, and it just popped out at me... its quite obvious on the 10 megapixel image on my 30" monitor... Great catch, let us know if/when confirmed, or other explanation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul mc c Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Nice one......every amateurs dream,good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Spock Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Here's hoping you've found something. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macavity Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 If it's still visible (dark) perhaps worth recording developments? http://earthsky.org/space/amateur-astronomer-supernova-1st-light-sn-2016gkg Such things seem to still be rather important for *science*! I sense "discovery rights" can be allocated retrospectively... I would be tempted to try to *timestamp* things though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveA Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Fingers crossed for you mate.......what a prize if you have? Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
souls33k3r Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 how very exciting. Good luck matey and we sincerely hope you've found something here. We're all rooting for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjw Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 I hate to be the bearer of bad news, sorry! This is a sub from about 10min ago. I tried to have it on the same scale and roughly the same orientation and the new star is not there. Sorry mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsG76 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 10 minutes ago, hjw said: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, sorry! This is a sub from about 10min ago. I tried to have it on the same scale and roughly the same orientation and the new star is not there. Sorry mate! Interesting.. I wonder what it was? I'm imaging now.. but it's too big to be noise or a cosmic ray.... and it is only on one sub... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsG76 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 12 minutes ago, hjw said: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, sorry! This is a sub from about 10min ago. I tried to have it on the same scale and roughly the same orientation and the new star is not there. Sorry mate! Yeah, it's not on my first sub that just popped up either.... :-/ Oh well, at least I had a bit of excitement today..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsG76 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 Sorry for the false alarm everyone.... it felt so close.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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