{"id":20,"date":"2016-12-04T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/?p=20"},"modified":"2022-05-04T22:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T21:34:20","slug":"supernova-2016-gxp-in-ngc51-andromeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Supernova 2016 GXP in NGC51 (Andromeda)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sn2016gxp_20161130_210230\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Image taken with 8 inch Altair RCOS and SBIG STF-8300M. 16 minute (4 x 4) exposure through ‘luminance’ filter.<\/p>\n

Here is the annotated image from Astrometry.net<\/a> identifying the other galaxies within the field.<\/p>\n

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From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

NGC 51<\/b> is a lenticular galaxy<\/a> in the constellation<\/a> Andromeda<\/a>. It has a diameter of 90,000 light-years<\/a>.\u00a0The galaxy was discovered on September 7, 1885 by Lewis Swift<\/a>, who described it as “Pretty faint, pretty small, round, brighter middle.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Observation data (2000.0<\/a> epoch<\/a>)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Constellation<\/a><\/th>\nAndromeda<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Right ascension<\/a><\/th>\n00:14:34.8h<\/sup><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Declination<\/a><\/th>\n+48:15:22\u00b0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Redshift<\/a><\/th>\n0.017849<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Helio radial velocity<\/a><\/th>\n5350 km\/s<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Distance<\/a><\/th>\n241,000,000Ly<\/a> (74,000,000Parsecs<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apparent magnitude<\/a>\u00a0(V)<\/small><\/th>\n13.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Characteristics<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Type<\/a><\/th>\nS0\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Size<\/th>\n90,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apparent size<\/a>\u00a0(V)<\/small><\/th>\n1′.445 x 0′.891<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image taken with 8 inch Altair RCOS and SBIG STF-8300M. 16 minute (4 x 4) exposure through ‘luminance’ filter. Here is the annotated image from Astrometry.net identifying the other galaxies within the field. From Wikipedia: NGC 51 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It has a diameter of 90,000 light-years.\u00a0The galaxy was discovered … Continue reading “Supernova 2016 GXP in NGC51 (Andromeda)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.njq.me.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}