Another supernova from my hunting night together with
SN 2021do and
SN 2021bbm.
The conditions were really bad. There was a lot of moisture in the air next to the crescent moon, which became a dense fog by 2 AM. Above the fog the seeing was not good either.
But it didn't matter. I decided to use the time for a couple of tiny galaxies decorated with a really big explosion.
In this case, NGC 4227 is tiny, but it has a small neighbor, NGC 4229 and many other faint fuzzies in the field. The eliptical galaxiy down left is NGC 4203 an the two red dots south if it are Quasars! Alltogether this three are astrobin debuts ;-)
What intrigues me most is the intense bluish color of the supernova, which shows up very well here (the image is just stretched and processed with the light pollution tool in APP).
More data to the SN itself:
http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html#2021biz
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