Galaxy PGC 66592, Supernova 2001fh

Spiral Galaxy PGC 66592 - Supernova 2001 fh

Spiral Galaxy PGC 66592, SN 2001fh; CCD image thru 20 inch
This is a 13 minute exposure with an ST-9E CCD camera thru Kopernik's 20-inch F/8.1 Ritchey Chretien Cassegrain telescope taken on Nov. 7th, 2001 at 2:10 UT. The field of view is 8x8 arc minutes with North at the top.

Supernova 2001fh:

Discovered: November 3rd, 2001, the LOTOSS supernova group.
Magnitude 17.2 at discovery, and about 17.2 in the Kopernik image.
Type: Ia-pec.

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

Galaxy PGC 66592:

This spiral galaxy lies behind the Cygnus region Milky Way. It is very much dimmed and reddened by the dust in our galaxy. Because of this reddening it is closer and brighter than it appears. Based on its published red-shift, a rough distance estimate for PGC 66592 is 205 million light years.

PGC 66592
Magnitude: 14.16
Constellation: Cygnus
RA: 21h 20m 45.9s
Dec: +44° 24' 17" Epoch 2000
Size (mins): 2.0'

Classification: Sb, Spiral Galaxy

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George Normandin, KAS

November 15th, 2001