{"id":27752,"date":"2020-05-15T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27752"},"modified":"2020-05-16T01:10:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T11:10:57","slug":"m61-with-a-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27752","title":{"rendered":"M61 with a Supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>M61 has been particularly bountiful when it comes to exploding stars.  This should not be a huge surprise as M61 is also experiencing rapid star formation.  With a lot of new stars around some of the largest stars will <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Type_II_supernova\">die early and die big<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Early this month the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ztf.caltech.edu\/\">Zwicky Transient Facility<\/a> noted a new supernova in M61, now cataloged as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochesterastronomy.org\/sn2020\/sn2020jfo.html\">SN2020jfo<\/a>.&nbsp;This&nbsp;explosion&nbsp;is&nbsp;now visible at 14.7 magnitude and can be seen by modest amateur telescope of at least 8-10 inches aperture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight supernovae have now been observed in M61: SN 2020jfo, SN 2014dt, SN 2008in, SN 2006ov, SN 1999gn, SN 1964F, SN 1961I, and SN 1926A, an unusual number for any galaxy.  In contrast our Milky Way galaxy last experienced a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kepler%27s_Supernova\">supernova in 1604<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between shooting other targets I stopped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?ObjID=NGC4303\">M61<\/a> last night to take a few exposures of the galaxy and see this supernova for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=27751\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M61-SN2020jfo20200515.png\" alt=\"NGC4303 - M61 with supernova SN2020jfo on the evening of Mar 14, 2020\" class=\"wp-image-27751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M61-SN2020jfo20200515.png 900w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M61-SN2020jfo20200515-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M61-SN2020jfo20200515-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>NGC4303 &#8211; M61 with supernova SN2020jfo on the evening of Mar 14, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M61 has been particularly bountiful when it comes to exploding stars. This should not be a huge surprise as M61 is also experiencing rapid star formation. With a lot of new stars around some of the largest stars will die early and die big. Early this month the Zwicky Transient Facility noted a new supernova &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;M61 with a Supernova&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[279,2725,2726,338],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M61-SN2020jfo20200515.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27763,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27752\/revisions\/27763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}