Bright supernova in NGC6946

From: Mark Wagner ^lt;mgw_at_No-Spam>
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 12:14:23 MST

Posted by Brian Skiff to amastro:

> The _nth_ supernova in NGC 6946 has been discovered. The position
>is given as: 20 35 25.4 +60 07 18 (J2000), and magnitude 13. The location
>is on the east side of the galaxy. A chart prepared by Reinder Bouma
>is posted here: http://www.shopplaza.nl/astro/vs-charts/sn2004et.htm

This one should be a real winner to observe, as the galaxy is paired
beautifully with the big open cluster NGC6939. This is a real "eye candy"
pair... and now... a supernova to add an exclamation point to it!

Get it while its hot!

Mark
Received on Wed Sep 29 12:14:26 2004


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