Daily Archives: 2024-12-29

CG 1 and 2 – Cometary Globules

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CG 1 and 2 – Cometary Globules in Puppis – HaRGB v1

It took me almost a month to gather the data for this 4 panel, 2×2 mosaic of both CG 1 (lower left) and CG 2 (upper right) in the outskirts of the Gum Nebula. This processing uses RGB and Ha data only, merging L didn’t yield good results with the “red wall” on the right.

More details at Astrobin.

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Supernova SN 2024abfo Update

Lightcurve of SN 2024abfo from 17 Nov until 28 Dec 2024
Lightcurve of SN 2024abfo from 17 Nov until 28 Dec 2024

Since the previous post, SN 2024abfo‘s brightness has been increasing steadily, peak brightness was during the night 06 Dec 2024, at 13.81 mag, more than fifteenfold since discovery by ATLAS on 15 Nov 2024 with 16.79 mag. Meanwhile, back at 14.96 mag on 28 Dec 2024.

IAS – Internationale Amateursternwarte e.V. – Hakos Observatory, Namibia
IAS remote telescope “Dieter”
Technical details see previous post. Photometry measurements with L filter.