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Supernova SN2022hrs in NGC4647, Thilo
Supernova SN2022hrs in NGC4647, Thilo

Supernova SN2022hrs in NGC4647

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Supernova SN2022hrs in NGC4647, Thilo
Supernova SN2022hrs in NGC4647, Thilo

Supernova SN2022hrs in NGC4647

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Maybe not the most thrilling field of view with this focal length - yet there are quite a few galaxies, like NGC4567/4568, NGC4607, M58, M59, just to name the most  eye-catching ones - but I wanted to give my new Esprit 100ED APO a second test ;)

A friend of mine had observed SN2022hrs visually from La Palma on May 2 and estimated it to be about 12.5 mag (i.e. shortly before this image was taken). At the end of May I observed it again together with him on La Palma and it had already decreased significantly in luminosity. It appeared to us a whole magnitude dimmer, so it was still about 13.5 mag bright.

The supernova SN2022hrs, which is a Type Ia, was discovered on April 16, 2022, by Amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki of Yamagata Japan. This supernova is believed to be the result of a collapsing white dwarf star in the galaxy NGC4647, though the larger galaxy NGC4649 (aka M60) overlaps and interacts, and could well be its home. The two galaxies lie 63 million lightyears from Earth - credit Sky & Telescope, April 30, 2022.

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