NGC 3987, Spiral Galaxy; Supernova 2001v

Spiral Galaxy NGC 3987 & Supernova 2001v

Spiral Galaxy NGC 3987

An 11 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: 2:45 UT, March 19th, 2001.

Supernova 2001v:

Discovered February 19th, 2001, by Perry Berlind at F. L.Whipple Observatory.

Magnitude 16.0 at discovery; max magnitude was about 14.5
Type Ia.
The supernova is magnitude 14.8 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 NGC 3987:

Quote from Dreyer's New General Catalog (NGC):

"Faint, moderately extended."

Edge-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 3987 is in the Constellation of Leo and it is in a multiple system with NGC 3989, NGC 3993 and NGC 3997. This galaxy and supernova 2001v are roughly at a distance of 250 million light years. There are several dimmer background galaxies in our image.

NGC 3987
Magnitude: 14.3
Constellation: Leo
RA: 11h 57m 21.2s
Dec: +25° 11' 41" Epoch 2000
Size (mins): 2.2' x 0.4'
Classification: Spiral Galaxy

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George Normandin, KAS

March 20th, 2001

Spiral Galaxy NGC 3987 & Supernova 2001v

An 11 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: 2:45 UT, March 19th, 2001.

An 11 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: 2:45 UT, March 19th, 2001.