Pictures of Novae and Supernovae

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 Nova Cygni 2001-2, magnitude 7.7, 10" Meade LX200 SCT f4, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. 10 second exposure.
NGC5965 showing supernova SN2001cm, in Draco. 10" Meade LX200 SCT f4, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Six 3 minute exposures summed. Effective integration time 18 minutes.
ngc2608.jpg (16840 bytes) Supernova SN2000bg, discovered by Tom Boles May 01. Object in NGC2608, Cancer.- 10" Meade LX200 SCT f4, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. 3 exposures : Effective integration time 9 minutes.
ngc2415.gif (102474 bytes) Supernova SN2000C in NGC2415, irregular galaxy in Lynx. Discovered by club colleague Steve Foulkes in January 2000. 10" LX200 SCT f10, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple exposures: effective integration time 9 minutes. 
nova2-1.jpg (41475 bytes) Nova Aquila 2 - Second nova in Aquila this year, this time much brighter. Photo taken by club colleague Grant Privett (many thanks) on friday 3rd December when nova was about mag.4. Yellow background is light pollution.
supernova in m88 (21386 bytes) Supernova 1999cl in M88, spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices, Magnitude about 14, 9th June 1999. 10" LX200 at f6.3, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple exposures : Effective integration time 12 minutes. Compare this with a photo taken ten months later here.
nova aquila.gif (53250 bytes) Nova Aquila, New star in Aquila (position 19h 07:37, +12 31:27), Magnitude about 10. Note artificial satellite trail - 10" Meade LX200 SCT f6.3, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Single 3 minute exposure. July 1999.
Supernova in ngc2841 (56172 bytes) NGC2841, Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major showing supernova 1999by at about magnitude 13, 11th May 1999. 10" LX200 at f6.3, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Effective exposure 9 minutes.
M96 in Leo m96 in Leo with Supernova, May 1998.
10" Orion Optics GX250 Newtonian f4.8, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple exposures : Effective integration time 5 minutes.


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