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Heavens Above => Astronomy & Near Earth Phenomena => Topic started by: Trekkygeek on August 26, 2011, 20:43:16 PM

Title: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight
Post by: Trekkygeek on August 26, 2011, 20:43:16 PM
Gotta dust down those binoculars for this one:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8725053/Exploding-star-to-be-visible-from-Earth-within-a-fortnight.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8725053/Exploding-star-to-be-visible-from-Earth-within-a-fortnight.html)
Title: Re: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight
Post by: Data on August 26, 2011, 20:49:01 PM
Not something you get to see too often, nice find  :thumbsup:

And welcome back Trekky  :)
Title: Re: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight
Post by: Trekkygeek on August 26, 2011, 20:50:54 PM
Cheers Data, I missed out on the last Supernova so really want to see this one.
This time I will really try to hang around more often (I promised Snowcrash)  :LOL:
Title: Re: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight
Post by: Snowcrash on August 26, 2011, 21:30:08 PM
It's no where near visible with the naked eye yet.

Here's a post with more info (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/08/25/m101-supernova-update/).

** trekkeygeek: Just another 2 posts and your name will change colour.
Title: Re: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight
Post by: Snowcrash on August 29, 2011, 17:50:23 PM
Expected mag 10 or 11 as max brightness.

You'll want a steady hand and large bins to see it.

*Trekkygeek: I will see what I can do about scope time. Weather depending.
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