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  • 22 May 2014 at 10:18 am #573350
    Gary Poyner
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    Details of the recent Supernova discovery in M106 (PSN J12185771+4718113) can now be found on the BAAVSS web pages.

    http://www.britastro.org/vss/

    Gary

    22 May 2014 at 11:35 pm #576561
    Nick James
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    Gary,

    Here’s an image from tonight. I assume the SN is the brightish thing around 3 arcsec SE of the core but it is difficult to separate it from the core and I don’t have any comparison pics to check.

    Nick.

    23 May 2014 at 7:13 am #576562
    Nick James
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    This is confirmed as a SN, designation is SN 2014bc.

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