[vsnet-alert 13396] Supernova in Messier 51

[P. Clay Sherrod]

Before and after....left photo is May 30, right photo was June 7 U.T.

Captured with the 0.5 meter ASO Astrograph at Petit Jean Mountain's Arkansas Sky
Observatories, these images show the sudden outburst of a "supernova", a massive explosion
of a star many times the size of our own sun in the far distant galaxy Messier 51 in the
northern sky constellation of Canes Venatici, very near the "Big Dipper" in our nighttime
skies.

The Supernova on June 7 at 7:00 U.T. was measured at magnitude 14.64 (R)
The exact astrometric position of this new star has been measured at ASO at:
NET UCAC3
              C2011 06 07.19713 13 30 05.10 +47 10 11.1          14.7 R      H45

Clay
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Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
Arkansas Sky Observatories
MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
MPC H43 - Conway West
http://www.arksky.org/