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Supernova SN2020scc at mag 13.7 in NGC 2782


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Another bright supernova is visible. Host galaxy is NGC 2782 in Lynx. The galaxy is a mag 12.3 face-on peculiar spiral. The supernova is listed as mag 13.7, so within reach of my C8 if skies are good. More information here:

http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html#2020scc

 

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It will be interesting to see how bright it is now.  The mag 13.7 figure is a month old though. Odd Trondal measured it at 13.9 on 2020-09-02 so it was around maximum a few weeks ago and has probably faded quite a bit by now. Interestingly this is an all amateur supernova, having been discovered by the Chinese XOSS team and classified as a Ia by Italian Claudio Balcon. (The XOSS team asked if  I could classify it so I was following it waiting for it clear some trees to get a spectrum but Claudio beat me to it !)

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