10-year old girl discovers, photographs supernova

[rodsky]

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"A 10-year-old Canadian girl will head back to school this month with a good case for some extra credit in science: She became the youngest person to discover a supernova during the holiday break."

More here:
Girl, 10, becomes youngest to discover supernova – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

-RODION

[analog man]

wow

what type of supernova is this rods?
how much time taken during the event?

I(we) want to know how to spot a supernova in a telescope image. Any links?

[Bangkilan]

cheers for the post bearer this is great news.


a quick info for us


2008 american girl Caroline Moore 14 y.o. discover a supernova.

( 2008ha gal.UGC 12682) constellation Pegasus





2010 canadian girl kathryn aurora ray a 10 y.o is now be the

youngest to discover a supernova.

( 2010lt gal.UGC 3378 ) constellation Camelopardalis.




-SALAMAT

[rodsky]

wow
what type of supernova is this rods?

Too early to tell what type.

how much time taken during the event?

The flash would usually last for days, but the peak would only be measured in hours, and if photographs were taken during the peak, this is usually the moment of discovery. The girl actually "discovered" it simply by looking at a photo of a region of space, and noting that a "star" appeared where it's not supposed to be. So one way to be good at spotting supernovae is, you must memories how certain starfields, or how some galaxies look like through a telescope.

I(we) want to know how to spot a supernova in a telescope image. Any links?

Article

-RODION

[analog man]

"I have discovered 3 supernovae in 3 weeks."

-from your link Rods.

Can we compute the total average of supernova phenomenon each year?

[rodsky]

"I have discovered 3 supernovae in 3 weeks."

-from your link Rods.

Can we compute the total average of supernova phenomenon each year?

You don't have to compute for it--they are published. And yes, discovering supernovae is very common due to robotic efforts. It's mostly robots doing the hunting nowadays man sad.

Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://astro.berkeley.edu/bait/publi.../kait_lwd.html

You can get KAIT's figures from these links too (i.e. how many supernovas it discovers in a year etc)

-RODION

[jeshcel]

na amazed ko.... this supernova (star explosion) happens 240 millions year ago kay 240 million lightyears man daw ang gilayo-on ani gikan sa atoa.

[analog man]

gi-unsa pagcompute ning 240 million light years to 240 million years?

[rodsky]

gi-unsa pagcompute ning 240 million light years to 240 million years?

There is no computation involved-- 240 million light years means that the light in that event travelled across space for 240 million years before it got to the earth. It's a direct translation.

-RODION

[yhokz101]

- and it could be that the event has happened in the past.. if we could actually go there on that spot there's no supernova that's currently happening.