Asteroids and Comets - Novae and Supernovae - Variable Stars
IMAGES OF SUPERNOVAE - 2009
I enjoy taking images of supernovae and there are web sites that like nothing more than to publish amateur images of this type. If you want to make your work more scientific how about doing multi-colour photometry of one or more of the supernovae as its fades?
Supernova 2008in - Imaged February 2nd 2009
Supernova 2009k - Imaged January 31st 2009
Supernova 2009p - Imaged February 2nd 2009
Supernova 2009s - Imaged February 3rd 2009
Supernova 2009t - Imaged February 3rd 2009
Supernova 2009ab - Imaged February 20th 2009
Supernova 2009ad - Imaged February 20th 2009
Images taken during 2007 and 2008
NOVA MONITORING
It is perfectly possible to make a significant contribution to the hobby with just a few, well targetted, observations each week. For example in the last couple of years there were some outstandingly interesting novae well within the range of amateur astronomers. When you look at the results note how few other people managed to observe the novae using filters and note how few nights observations were missed due to bad weather!
The results for observer NMR are mine and have a black box around them.
Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.
This page was last updated on February 11th 2009.