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Pinwheel (M101) Supernova (SN 2023ixf) between May 17-21, 2023!, C. Jonas Moiel
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Pinwheel (M101) Supernova (SN 2023ixf) between May 17-21, 2023!

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I've been photographing M101 since March and happened to be shooting RGB data between May 17th through May 22, 2023. I caught the Pinwheel Supernova expanding in size between May 19th and 21st, when it first exploded! I'm bummed I missed out on May 20th, there were some partially cloudy skies that night. 

This video is composed of 38 blue channel 300 second exposure photographs taken between 5/17-5/21. I registered the images and blinked them in Pixinsight to create a video.

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