Good Friday Afternoon, please read as this is a very descriptive post. About a week a go I decided I wanted to start collecting data on M101, and not for the Galaxy. Observations will continue over the course of the next year.
| Supernova
SN2023ixf |
Current LIVE data at the time of writing:- Type II-L Supernova
- Magnitude: 20.75 (reduced to 21.25 by 3.92 Airmasses
- RA/Dec (J2000.0): 14h03m40.51s / +54° 18' 47.0"
- RA/Dec (on date): 14h04m32.63s / +54° 11' 45.5"
- Transit: 23h 50m
- Circumpolar (never sets)
- IAU Constellation: UMa
- Maximum Brightness Reached: Mag 11 (05/23/2023)
- Exploded: May 2023 (first observed 05/19/2023 by Koichi Itagaki
The close proximity of
SN2023ixf gives a unique opportunity to study these stellar explosions.The supernova occured in the southwest region of M101, close to prominent star-forming region NGC 5461. Previous studies of this area found it contained three clusters of young stars, which are common places to find the supergiant stars that eventually go supernova.A 15-solar-mass red supergiant identified in Spitzer Space Telescope images of M101 taken between 2012 and 2019 could potentially be the origin of the supernova, although this star didn’t exhibit the typical fluctuations seen in a pre-explosion star.
Below is an Image by
Martin Bracken showing the
Discovery and
Brightening of
SN2023ixfThank you for taking the time to look, and read. follow to stay updated as I plan to continue collecting data.
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