Supernova SN 2024abfo continued

Lightcurve of SN 2024abfo from 17 Nov til 07 Dec 2024
Lightcurve of SN 2024abfo from 17 Nov til 07 Dec 2024

Since the previous post, SN 2024abfo‘s brightness has been increasing steadily until yesterday. Peak was during the night 06 Dec 2024, with 13.81 mag. Since discovery by ATLAS on 15 Nov 2024 with 16.79 mag, it’s brightness increased more than fifteenfold!

IAS – Internationale Amateursternwarte e.V. – Hakos Observatory, Namibia
IAS remote telescope “Dieter”
Technical details see previous post. Photometry measurements with L filter.

Supernova SN 2024abfo

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Supernova SN 2024abfo in Galaxy NGC 1493 – 18 Nov 2024 – LRGB v1

Recently, a new type II supernova SN 2024abfo was discovered in the galaxy NGC 1493, on 2024-11-15 by ATLAS, discovery mag 16.793.

This image is processed data from 2024-11-18, I managed to image NGC 1493 and SN 2024abfo on 2024-11-17 and 2024-11-18 so far. Measurements of L brightness in Tycho yields:

2024-11-17: 16.82 – 16.91 mag (median, 2 batches, not reliable, passing clouds)
2024-11-18: 16.70 – 16.64 mag (median, 5 batches)

More details at Astrobin.

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Gum 68

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Gum 68 / Sh2-13 / RCW 133 – Emission Nebula in Scorpius – HSS w/RGB Stars v1

Took me a while to create something with presentable colors from the narrowband data of this obscure nebula in Scorpius, the previous H-alpha black and white version was easier.

This is a bicolor image with R=H-alpha, G=SII, B=SII and mainly H-alpha with a bit of SII used as luminance, plus calibrated RGB stars screened on-top.

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Dark Tower

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Dark Tower – Cometary Globule GN 16.43.7.01 in Scorpius – LHaRGB v1

A lesser known object, the Cometary Globule GN 16.43.7.01, nick-named Dark Tower gained some popularity, especially since ESO’s publication of an image taken with the VLT.

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Grus Quartet

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NGC 7599, 7590, 7582, 7552 – Grus Quartet Galaxies – LRGBHa v1

Back in Sep 2023 I imaged the close-ups of the Grus Quartet Galaxies, see here for NGC 7599, 7590, and 7582 and here for NGC 7552. Now with the wider field of the IAS remote telescope “Dieter” all four in one FOV. See the annotated version below for the myriads of galaxies (PGC) in the background.

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Almost Super Color Ful(l) Moon

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Almost Super Color Ful(l) Moon 2024-08-19 20:03 UT

Last night’s full moon at 20:03 UT, almost a super moon, i.e. a full moon at perigee, which will be on 2024-08-21 5:05 UT at a distance of 360193 km. Two days earlier, the Moon here is at declination -14.7°, a distance of 364578 km, aged 13.8 d with the canoncial full moon at 18:28 UT. Combined RGB exposures with heavily boosted colors.

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Etosha Day 4

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Etosha – Day 4 – Oryx Crossing King Nehale Gate Road

Another batch of images from the Etosha National Park, Namibia. See also the previous posting for day 1, day 2 and day 3, as well as the expanded series in the gallery.

Ein weiterer Schwung von Bildern aus dem Etosha National Park, Namibia. Siehe auch das vorherige Posting zu Tag 1, Tag 2 und Tag3, sowie die erweiterte Serie in der Galerie.

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