Supernova in NGC 514

[Steve Gottlieb]

If you’re observing in the next week at a reasonably dark site, there’s a new type Ia supernova in NGC 514 (discovered just 9 days ago), which I observed at Lake Sonoma on Monday night.  The galaxy itself is a fairly low surface brightness 12th magnitude spiral that I’ve previously seen in several scopes down to 8".

The supernova is less than 1’ ENE of center at the edge of the halo and a bit brighter than two mag 14.4/14.7 stars further east.  It may still brighten some more.

— Steve

[Akarsh Simha]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the mail about the supernova. I added it to my observing list for this new moon and here is my report:

NGC 514 (18", failed to log the power; most likely 342x): Largely unremarkable galaxy with slightly brighter core and very vague hints of spiral structure.

SN2020uxz: SN similar in brightness to the 13.3mag star, being only slightly fainter than it. Somewhat brighter than the 14.4 mag star, and much fainter than the 9.5 mag star. There is a star to the 5 o' clock of the supernova, which is much fainter than the SN (seen to the 1 o'clock in the image Steve shared). The Supernova outshines the core visually (i.e. not necessarily measuring integrated magnitude, but visual perception).

Regards

Akarsh

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