SN2012aw

SN2012aw was discovered by Paolo Fagotti, Bastia Umbra, Italy on March 16, 2012 in the spiral galaxy M95. At first many thought that there was nothing there at all, then that it was a CV (cataclysmic variable) and finally it was confirmed by low resolution spectroscopy to be a Supernova. Here are several images from TRO as well as an image from The 60" telescope at the Catalina sky Survey taken by Rik Hill. Some of the images were taken on March 20, 2012 with the top image taken April 1 2012. Supernova's are quite fascinating and this one was caught quite early. The earlier thay are imaged the better the science!

Here is a AAVSO lightcurve of SN 2012aw through 7/01/2012. Notice the brightening in I but the gradual decline in V and B! As the explosion cools it releases more red (I) light and the light from B and V decreases. Eventually the red will begin to curve down as well. The crosses are my contributions. Unfortunately I have one that is way off! This one should have been removed after I reported it as being discrepant but it apparnetly slipped through anyway!

Here is M95 and SN 2012aw in Infrared light. 7x180 seconds stack and averaged combined. April 5, 2012 8:30 pm

April 1 2012 TRO

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March 20, 2012 TRO

March 20, 2012 TRO

March 20, 2012 taken by Rik Hill of the Catalina Sky Survey with the 60" telescope.

March 20, 2012 TRO

April 17, 2012 stack of 8x30 in V.

Latest image of SN 2012AW. The SN is shining at 13.6 magnitude and is still relatively bright. There is a possibility that this may be a hyper nova which is super bright SN that takes much longer to dim out.

The image is 1x6 minutes with a V filter. This image had the hot pixels removed by CCDSoft and was deconvolved and wavelet filtered. The text was added with Irfanview. This image was not used for photometry!