M51 with AT2019ABN



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Date: 10 April 2019
Location: High Halden, Kent
Exposure: 345 x 30sec exposures at ISO 10000 (nearly 3 hours of data)
Telescope: Celestron C11 with 0.72x Starizona LF corrector on Skywatcher EQ6 mount
Camera: H-alpha modified Sony A7S
Guiding: Nikkor 300mm lens with QHY5 camera.
Filters: IR/UV cut filter
Processing: Bayer drizzle stacked in PixInsight. Arcsinh Stretch
Comments: M51 with an intermediate luminosity red transient (ILRT). This one goes under the name AT 2019ABN. It suddenly appeared earlier this year and was a possible supernova candidate. Discovered on 22-Jan by ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System).