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Jayme H spacenuut Post Extras:       Saint Aardvark super member Reged: 11/25/10 Re: Super Nova in NCG3115 [Re: spacenuut]       #5657482 - 02/02/13 01:12 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Maybe this is what you saw...if so, sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Post Extras:       spacenuut member Reged: 04/08/10 Re: Super Nova in NCG3115 [Re: Saint Aardvark]       #5657498 - 02/02/13 01:34 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Well, that's why I came here. Thanks for the quick reply. Darn! Jayme Post Extras:       Achernar Postmaster Reged: 02/25/06 Loc: Mobile, Alabama, USA Re: Super Nova in NCG3115 [Re: spacenuut]       #5657847 - 02/02/13 10:12 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Check out this website for information on known supernovae in other galaxies. It's possible that you could stumble across one, but this site and the other site could help you determine if you actually saw a supernova, or a foreground star in our galaxy. http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html http://spider.seds.org/ngc/ngc.html Taras Post Extras:       Red Shift super member Reged: 11/09/11 Loc: Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA Re: Super Nova in NCG3115 [Re: Achernar]       #5658495 - 02/02/13 04:52 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Since I absolutely DO NOT TRUST someone saying that another Astronomer discovered something first, I submit this info from the Hubble Legacy Archive. Take a look at this thsite: The Hubble Legacy Archive, http://hla.stsci.edu/ ENTER SITE SELECT IMAGES TYPE IN 'NGC3115" and ENTER and tell me that there is something there where your shot shows a bright object. I think you have found something. As far away as that galaxy is, any star would show up in the Hubble shot as well. The angle from that galaxy to Earth orbit ( or Earth surface in your case ) is JUST too small to NOT include an "in the way" star. Post Extras:       GlennLeDrew Postmaster Reged: 06/18/08 Loc: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Re: Super Nova in NCG3115 [Re: Red Shift]       #5658509 - 02/02/13 04:58 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Or it could be an asteroid, if the exposure was sufficiently short as to not show trailing due to orbital motion. But that would be quite the coincidence, to find a solar system body so precisely in the disk plane of a tiny galaxy... Follow-up image required! Post Extras:       Red Shift super member Reged: 11/09/11 Loc: Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA Re: Super Nova in NCG3115 [Re: GlennLeDrew]       #5658551 - 02/02/13 05:23 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Yeah - could be an asteroid ( or maybe a comet ) Check this link out http://www.ngcicproject.org/ look for NGC3115 Post Extras:       Ed D Carpal Tunnel Reged: 04/30/10 Loc: Sunny South Florida Re: Super Nova in NCG3115 [Re: Red Shift]       #5658644 - 02/02/13 06:11 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I agree that follow-up images would help in detecting motion. The pics St Aardvark linked appear to show the object closer to the galactic core than does your pic, and the Hubble pics Red Shift linked to don't show the object. Very interesting. Ed D Edited by Ed D (02/02/13 06:16 PM) Post Extras:       Saint Aardvark super member Reged: 11/25/10 Re: Super Nova in NCG3115 [Re: Ed D]       #5659769 - 02/03/13 11:22 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I absolutely agree that more follow-up images would be great, and of course I'm no expert. But this Hubble image seems to show something similar to spacenuut's image. (Red Shift, thanks for that link -- I had no idea!) The bright star that's in the centre of spacenuut's image, very close to the top, seems to be at the bottom of the Hubble image, and seems to show the same orientation to 3115's disk. And the other star/supernova/what-have-you appears to be there too. In spacenuut's image, the bright star at the top, the galaxy core and the mystery object are oriented like a clock showing 5pm. I think I see the same orientation, though upside-down, in the Hubble image. You can zoom out and it becomes a bit more apparent. Post Extras:       atkinsonr journeyman Reged: 01/08/13 Re: Super Nova in NCG3115 [Re: Saint Aardvark]       #5661297 - 02/04/13 08:49 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I think the foreground star is there in the hubble images too, it's just that they are reversed in both axis as compared to spacenuut's; see this image for example: http://bit.ly/Xa4FMP Post Extras:       Pages: 1 Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Extra information 4 registered and 12 anonymous users are browsing this forum. 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