To spice up the soil monitoring program to include some of the more recent supernovas, of course with a bright and accessible in a region of sky that can target.
are many supernovae which portray in one night if you have a medium aperture telescope, time, and an unobstructed view of the entire sky. Automated searches are monopolizing the discoveries of these bursts in distant galaxies, sometimes making for a false impression of normality, to forget their extraordinary nature, the result of millions of years of nucleogénesis inside a star or gas accumulation around a white dwarf.
Every night may appear, in a faint galaxy if not for the efficiency of a CCD, and appeared in the UGC 9947, discovered by British amateur Tom Boles, a modest star that adorned the elliptical galaxy of magnitude 17. But beyond his hostess to an extent, and in a few days after the blast has risen above the sixteenth magnitude. The supernova brightness surpasses the galaxy that lives!
UGC 9947 is a distance of about 308 ± 22 million light years (inferred from their redshifts with a Hubble constant H 0 of 73 km / s / MPc). Posted distance of 10 parsec (32.6 light years), somewhat further than Vega of us, the supernova shine at magnitude -19, much more intense that the full moon.
Paradoxically (or cosmic caution), the most shocking events in the universe occur far from us as tiny specks of dust flashes lost in the depths of space.
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