Congrats to Dave Grennan on his SN discovery.

My sincerest congrats to Dave as well for his fateful and historic discovery. It is honours well-justified and it could not have happened to someone more worthy!

What great "renumeration" for such dedicated and inspiring work! Gotta confess that Dave's success has me thinking of dedicating time as well to such an endeavour, for we have never had any such discovery (supernova or asteroid) from Greece.

Anthony.

Damien, Were all only scratching the surface and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves. However I know what you mean. I was there too. If this discovery means anything at all it's that amateurs CAN do this sort of valuable astronomy. So keep at it Damien, persevere and when you run into the wall remember that there are those of us just a little further down the road here to help. You won't find a more helpful bunch of lads and lassies than here.

+1 Yes Dave, very True, I myself have been doing a lot of variable star observing and nova hunting for years now, and still no sucess, but hey keep observing, maybe it will come true for you all too some night

Keith..

hi dave! its amazing how in this temperate climate we have, we can do the nearly impossible! but you made it even more possible AGAIN! well done and congrads!!!!

James.

Congratulations on your amazing discovery!! Truly breathtaking stuff! : cheer:

congrats dave, well done a great pay off for all your hard work .

Hi All,

I managed to do some measurements on supernova 2010 IK imaged with a C14 and ATIK 4000 CCD.And it appears to have brightened to around 17.7. Results below

COD J09
OBS C. O'Beirnes
MEA C. O'Beirnes
TEL 0.36-m Schmidt Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2010.10.13 15:19:01
NET USNO-B1.0

2010 IK C2010 10 10.86551 00 12 07.46 +41 45 24.5 17.7 R .