UGC 6211, Spiral Galaxy; Supernova 2001ah

Spiral Galaxy UGC 6211 & Supernova 2001ah

Spiral Galaxy UGC 6211

A 10 minute exposure with an ST-6 CCD camera thru Kopernik's 20-inch F/8.1 Ritchey Chretien Cassegrain telescope. The field of view is about 5x7 arc minutes, with North at the top.
Time: 4:00 UT, April 14th, 2001.

Supernova 2001ah:

Discovered March 27th, 2001, at Puckett Observatory by T. Puckett and M. Peoples.

Magnitude 18.3 at discovery
Type Ia, peculiar.
Discovered well before maximum light.
The expansion velocity is about 20,400 km/s.
The supernova is magnitude 17.9 in the Kopernik image.

Follow this Link to a NASA Web site on supernovas. It has a very nice animation and a description of what these objects are.

Spiral Galaxy UGC 06211:

Spiral Galaxy UGC 6211 is in the constellation of Ursa Major and is 28 arc minutes south of Galaxy M-108. This small and dim object, along with Supernova 2001ah, is nearly 900 million light years away. At least six other even dimmer galaxies are in the Kopernik image above.

UGC 06211
Magnitude: 15.5
Constellation: Ursa Major
RA: 11h 10m 31.1s
Dec: +55° 12' 43" Epoch 2000
Size (mins): 1.1' x 0.8'
Classification: SABbc, Mixed Barred Non-barred Spiral Galaxy

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George Normandin, KAS

April 15th, 2001