 | APOW
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2013 August 24
It is Good to be Lucky!
Unfortunately, we were not lucky in this case. Bright SN
2013ej in a relatively nearby galaxy M74, currently the brightest known
supernova on the sky, was discovered
by LOSS on July 25, 2013. As you can see from our APOW, M74 is in
a field that we are observing regularly, including on July 23, 2013,
1.91 days before SN 2013ej was discovered, but there was nothing
there in our data. Type IIP supernovae like SN 2013ej rise very
quickly and we simply missed it by a day, at V=12.5 it is very bright
even when using our relatively small 14-cm lenses (for example,
LOSS uses a 0.7-m diameter telescope). In the next few months we will
add four more "Assassins" in Hawaii and Chile, allowing us to scan the
sky more quickly, so maybe we will be more lucky next time.
See previous APOWs:
Extreme
M-dwarf Flare Observed by ASAS-SN
Neptune
Discovered!
Multiband
photometric follow-up of ASASSN-13aw (SN 2013dr);
"Assassin"
Unit 1: Brutus;
How
ASAS-SN Discovers Supernovae: Case of Supernova ASASSN-13bb;
NGC
2617: Dramatic Seyfert Type Change;
ASASSN-13/SN
2013da: Our First Supernova Three Weeks Later;
M31
and Companions;
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