Hi Kelly, I've added an arrow pointing to the faux supernova in the picture on the left. The picture on the right shows the same field of view a few minutes later. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/5879.jpg The oblong object in the center is the galaxy NGC 5879. Good night, patrick On 20 Jun 2013, at 04:47, Kelly Ricks wrote:

Great pictures Patrick! But forgive my ignorance: the elongated object in the center that looks like a galaxy, is that the cosmic ray hit? Or is it the bright object to the upper right? Or have I missed seeing it in your photos altogether?

~Kelly

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:50:14 -0600 From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] The SN that wasn't Message-ID: <F2E00A2C-6069-45E9-9562-14672CE569A9@wirelessbeehive.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Well, for a few precious minutes I thought I'd finally caught a supernova in the act.

Alas, a confirming shot taken a little later confirmed only that I'd managed to capture a cosmic ray hit in the act.

http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/5879.jpg

But it was fun while it lasted. Maybe next time...

patrick