Supernovae Databases
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CBAT. Distribution across TheSky
Object Type Reference Points -
3,582 Supernovae to date
If
you do not have Reference Point set to visible you will not see the Supernovae. Using the Display Explorer
Why NOT to use Object Type
Reference Point?
Because you cannot filter
magnitudes using object type "reference point" it is better to use one of the
User-Defined Object types instead! That then allows you to show only Super Novae
or other objects that are brighter than 12 magnitude. The only reason for not
compiling the data this way is there is no way to know if the User Defined
Object type is already being used by something else! Just recompile the data
using a custom object type when filter is desired.
Enabling object type
"Reference Points"
Use the Display Explorer
Edit | Find
Note Supernovae under Sky Databases (SDB's)
HINT:
If you check Frame Object on the Find dialog you
are taken DIRECTLY to each object in the list. If you want the Object
Information check it too. VERY handy!
To search use Edit | Find Supernovae then the number or discovers name or by selecting it from the list above.
See above. You can search for a name or the number if the SN.
Example "Edit | Find 1994I" {ENTER] returns the
following, Object name: SN
2007: 1994I Puckett, Armstrong; Johnson, Millar; Berry; Kushida
Magnitude: 13.5
Equatorial: RA: 13h 27m 49s Dec: +47°27'02"(current)
Equatorial 2000: RA: 13h 29m 54s Dec: +47°11'32"
Horizon: Azim: 304°28'07" Alt: +38°01'54"
Visibility: Rise 06:20, Set 03:22
Transit time: 16:49
Source catalog: Sky Database: SN 2007
Blue mag: Super Nova: 1994I
Constellation: Magnitude: 13.5
Surface brightness: Host Galaxy: NGC 5194
Remarks: Date: 1994 04 02
DB field 5: Type: Ic?
DB field 6: Disc. Ref.: IAUC 5961
DB field 7: Posn. Ref.: IAUC 5961
DB field 8: Discoverer(s): Puckett, Armstrong; Johnson, Millar; Berry; Kushida
Hour angle: 04h 55m 13s
Air mass: 1.62
Sidereal time: 18:23
Click distance: 2.0000
Celestial type: 55
Index: 3220
Catalog: 10
;Copyright, TheSky 2007
>SEARCH 137,250
>ALIAS 9,25
>RAHOURS 88,89
>RAMINUTES 91,92
>RASECONDS 94,98
>DECSIGN 100,100
>DECDEGREES 101,102
>DECMINUTES 104,105
>DECSECONDS 107,110
>MAGNITUDE 65,68
>CATALOG CLASS=POINTS
>LOADMEMORY
>IDENTIFIER Super Novae
>PARSE "Super Nova" 1,8
>PARSE "Host Galaxy" 9,25
>PARSE "Date" 26,37
>PARSE "Type" 129,134
>PARSE "Offset 53,63
>PARSE "Disc. Ref." 72,86
>PARSE "Posn. Ref." 114,128
>PARSE "Discoverer(s)" 145,250
>OBJECT TYPE 55
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;http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Supernovae.html
But wait - The text changes nearly every day!
Yes this is true. By using the
Header above you can quite easily attach it to the newly downloaded
text then just re-compile the text for the changes to take affect.
Need help? See below.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html
IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) operates at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (specifically under the
SAO umbrella), under the
auspices of Commission
6 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
and is a nonprofit organization, with principal funding coming from
subscriptions to the various services offered by the Bureau.
The CBAT is responsible for the dissemination of information on transient
astronomical events and various IAU news including the announcement of
designations and names of various celestial objects -- via the IAU Circulars
(IAUCs), a series of postcard-sized announcements issued at irregular
intervals as necessary in both printed and electronic form, and (as
of 2002 Dec. 20) often now also via the electronic-only Central Bureau
Electronic Telegrams (CBETs). The CBAT is the official worldwide
clearinghouse for new discoveries of comets, solar-system satellites, novae,
supernovae, and other transient astronomical events. The first Central Bureau
was formally created in the 1880s in Kiel, Germany, remaining there until World
War I when it was moved to Copenhagen Observatory (Denmark), where it remained
until the end of 1964; the IAU (formed in 1919) adopted the Copenhagen
Observatory's Central Bureau as its official Bureau Central des Télégrammes
Astronomiques in 1922. On 1965 Jan. 1, the CBAT moved from Copenhagen to
Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Harvard College Observatory had been acting
as the western hemisphere's astronomy information center also since 1883. The
CBAT has operated in Cambridge since 1965 under the successive directorships of
Prof. Owen Gingerich (1965-1968), Dr. Brian G. Marsden (1968-2000), and Dr.
Daniel W. E. Green (2000-present).
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