Supernova SN2006lv

 

Supernova was discovered on picture from the night 28 of october 2006 in UGC 6517, a small galaxy in UMA.

The galaxy distance from Earth: 34 megaparsecs (110 million light-years).

Telescope: 0.32m f/3.1 Newton  (Moonbase observatory main optical instrument). CCD:  Starlight Xpress MX716.

The discovery picture 20061028.12UT 2x30 sek unfiltered ccd. Sn mag=16.0.

Confirmation picture 20061102.10UT 20x30 sek unfiltered ccd. Sn mag=15.9.

Confirmation picture number 2 - from Uppsala Observatory.

UGC 6517 Susp. SN
2006 Nov 03, 0038 UT
90 cm f/5 refl.and SBIG STL-1001E ccd camera - Westerlund Uppsala
400 s tot exp time, bias, dark, flat corrected
mag. 15.8R ref. source USNO-A2
Position 12 arcsec E, 12 arcsec N of nucleus, PA 45 deg. rel to nucleus.
Images by Fredrik Andersson, measurements by Johan Warell.

Reference picture from 20050411.86UT 2x30 sek unfiltered ccd. No Sn.

 

From the island of La Palma and the 2.56m Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) comes this wunderful picture of this galaxy and sn2006lv. Fot: by J.Warell & O.Karlsson

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