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To: metmom

Rats! I been looking at that thing for years. Never though much of it. :_)

3 posted on 06/14/2009 2:04:12 PM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: raybbr
I been looking at that thing for years. Never though much of it. :_)

What's the magnitude of the supernova? If that's the scope she used to (visually?) discover it, the magnitude couldn't be much fainter than 13, you think?
23 posted on 06/14/2009 2:29:44 PM PDT by plsvn
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To: raybbr

What amazes me is that she knew it was a supernova and not just another star that happened to be in the same line of sight with the galaxy.


35 posted on 06/14/2009 4:10:06 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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