Supernova SN 2022pgf in NGC 5894 spiral galaxy: a image – 31 July 2022.
We observed the supernova SN 2022pgf in the beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 5894, as part of our supernova follow-up program: here it is our image.
Supernova SN 2022pgf in NGC 5894 spiral galaxy: 31 July 2022.
The image above comes from the average of six, 120-second exposures, unfiltered, remotely taken with the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″+Paramount ME+SBIG STL-6303E) robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project. The supernova is indicated by an arrow in the upper left inset.
The host galaxy is NGC 5894, a beautiful, edge on, bared spiral galaxy located at about 120 millions of light years. As for the supernova, we estimated SN 2022pgf as bright as mag. 14.8 (unfiltered, R-mags for the reference stars from the Gaia DR2 star catalogue). This transient was discovered on 22 July 2022 by ZTF survey and it is a type II supernova.
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