Supernova 2008db

[blobrana]

A magnitude 14.4 supernova, 2008db, was discovered on the 15th May, 2008, by CHASE (http://www.physics.unc.edu/~evans/promptcam/promptcam.html) in the elliptical galaxy NGC 50 in the constellation Cetus.
The supernova is located 78" west and 79" north of the centre of the galaxy.
As yet the Type is unknown.

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4688/sn2008dbnu6.th.jpg (http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sn2008dbnu6.jpg)
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Supernova 2008db.kmz
Google Sky file (http://adrive.com/public/24fbf1496ac9bf1f855548af45e275ebac48d1af936d51f78a 4fa09af366dc14.html) (1kb, kmz)

Position(2000): R.A. = 00h14m39s.36, Dec. = -07°19'23".5
z = 0.019016

CBET 1407 (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/001400/CBET001407.txt)

[kaneda]

With an average of one per galaxy per century, that comes to around 31 supernovae per second somewhere in the universe. Most of course are too far to see while most of the others, we are not looking in the right place to see them go off.

[blobrana]

Most of course are too far to see...

Hum,
indeed,
very few supernova become bright enough to be seen in some amateur telescopes.

(thus, the reason why i posted this news here)...