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Supernova SN2017dfc in M63

taken with Celestron 11 with Starizona 0.75x reducer / corrector and ZWO ASI1600mm-c camera on a Skywatcher EQ6

From Monte Beigua, Sassello (SV), Italy

 

About 2 hours and half of Luminance shots from 22:00 of 21 April 2017 to 02:00 of 22 April 2017

RGB shots and LRGB color image need to wait cause too much wind :\

 

2017dfc, (= Gaia17baw) TNS discovered 2017/04/09.444 by Gaia Photometric Science Alerts programme

Found in M63 at R.A. = 13h15m43s.580, Decl. = +42°02'13".38 (= NGC 5055)

Located 63".7 west and 28".4 north of the center of the M63 (Marc Deldem image)

Mag 18.8:4/20, Type Ia (z=0.06) (zhost=0.001614) (SN is behind M63) (References: ATEL 10302 Gaia observations; SN 1971I) ù

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_Galaxy

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova

 

www.rochesterastronomy.org/sn2017/sn2017dfc.html

 

in the comments the cropped image

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