Supernova 2011by

[george7378]

No problem - it's always nice to have a record of what you've seen I saw something weird a few weeks ago too - I looked up from the telescope and saw a small, straight, glowing trail of light hanging motionless in the north-east. I watched it for about a minute, and it gradually faded to nothing - I think it might have been the ion trail of a meteor that passed over just before I looked up from the telescope - it stayed there for a really long time though.

As for the supernova itself - I haven't seen it for a while due to cloud and the sky staying light until nearly midnight - it's around 13.3 now though.

 

[george7378]

I got another image back from http://www.telescope.org/ and put it with the previous one in an animation to show how it has faded. The SN is just right of centre - the images are separated by 22 days. This animation is currently unfinished (I have sent requests to the telescope to take more images as it fades further, so I will be able to make an animation showing it fade to nothing) but still - it gives an idea of how it's behaving. The images are copyrighted to the Bradford Robotic Telescope, and I processed them and put them together in GIMP:

 

[stephen_bennett]

A rendition of what I saw

http://forum.skyatnightmagazine.com/tm.asp?m=124152&mpage=1&key=&#125034

 

[Quintuss]

With that empty space inside it bears resemblence to that failed Russian missile launch. Or this. THE RAPTURE maybe? :thumbup:

 

[stephen_bennett]

With that empty space inside it bears resemblence to that failed Russian missile launch. Or this. THE RAPTURE maybe? :thumbup:

Lol! Well the Pope has been dialing up the ISS.

Do you think the observation I made in the same space of nebulous type activity approx 24 hours later would rule in or out any Earth bound science or activity?

 

[Quintuss]

I might not be an expert but we do know that coinsidences do happen. And since nor Yourself nor do we know what You might saw we cant rule out anything. Correct ?

 

[stephen_bennett]

I might not be an expert but we do know that coinsidences do happen. And since nor Yourself nor do we know what You might saw we cant rule out anything. Correct ?

True! :tiphat:

 

[Yoda]

True! :tiphat:

WRONG !!!
There are lots of things we can rule out; especially everything that common sense would tell us is NOT visible with the naked eye.

Who the heck knows what you've seen ; we'll never now and continuing to make wild guesses doesn't do anything but make you look rather desperate I'm afraid to say.

You saw something ......leave it at that !

 

[george7378]

It's worth remembering and thinking about as you learn more about what's in the sky - you may well find the answer yourself after a bit more research. It definitely wasn't the supernova though, so let's keep the thread on track.

 

[stephen_bennett]

WRONG !!!
There are lots of things we can rule out; especially everything that common sense would tell us is NOT visible with the naked eye.

Who the heck knows what you've seen ; we'll never now and continuing to make wild guesses doesn't do anything but make you look rather desperate I'm afraid to say.

You saw something ......leave it at that !

Lol! Curious yes, desperate not!

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It's worth remembering and thinking about as you learn more about what's in the sky - you may well find the answer yourself after a bit more research. It definitely wasn't the supernova though, so let's keep the thread on track.

That's the plan. I'm posting here for feedback, advice and general banter.

 

[dbeachy1]

O-F Staff Note: twelve egregiously off-topic posts removed and thread reopened. Let's please stay on-topic in this thread. Thanks.