Wow, that is real science! It would be fun to hear your speculation about what triggered it. -- Joe ________________________________ From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Anyone imaging? (corrected URL) I just checked the field and, though greatly diminished, it's still there. Apparently my data turned out to be useful to some folks as I see NASA Goddard published them (many thanks to AAVSO's Matthew Templeton for helping me write it up): http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/14490.gcn3 That marks my first time in a GCN Circular. Matthew tells me that someplace called the Los Alamos group reported it initially reached magnitude 7.9 and that that might have been the jet emerging from the star. I guess we should be thankful the source was so far away. From what I understand if a nearby source were to hit us with such a beam it would wreak havoc with Earth's ecosystem. patrick On 28 Apr 2013, at 07:28, Dave Gary wrote:
Wow, that is bright. I doubt it would be there, tonight, but I could try to get an image.
Dave On Apr 28, 2013, at 1:33 AM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Right you are. That should have read:
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/mystery/mystery01.jpg shows the light curve as generated using two different softwares
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/mystery/mystery02.jpg shows the POSS image of the field on the left and one of my very hazed and mooned shots of the same FOV with the object arrowed.
patrick
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