Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Camera

Re:Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Ca... by peterbraden on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:34PM (#16433183)

How would an amateur bring this to the attention of the big telescopes so quickly? Are there alert mailing lists with people screening them?

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Re:Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Ca... by antognini on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @05:09PM (#16433439)

You can send an astronomer's telegram: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/

There's a pretty active community of amateur astronomers who search for new supernovae. Until recently amateurs actually discovered most new supernovae. Japanese amateurs especially found a lot because there's nothing over the Pacific, so they could discover all the supernova that went off when it was night over the Pacific.

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Re:Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Ca... by cypherpunks01 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:04PM (#16435073)

Thanks, interesting! I think this may be the relevant "telegram" for this story?

http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=9521

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