Hentunen and Nissinen photographed the supernova SN 2010U 6.2.2010 with GRAS1 remote telescope (see CBET 2161). The supernova is located in the galaxy NGC 4214. The supernova was discovered by Koichi Itagaki team. The brightness of the SN 2010U was about 16.6CR magnitudes.
SN 2010O and SN 2010P in Arp299 (NGC 3690).
Arp299 (NGC3690) is combine of two merging galaxy. Due this, there are lot of areas where dust is condensed and where supernovae occurs. At the moment of this photograph there are two supernovae in the Arp299, SN 2010O and SN 2010P. The SN 2010P was discovered by researchers Seppo Mattila and Erkki Kankare by using the […]
NGC 4857 and possible supernova.
The confirmation pictures of the supernovae SN 2009nr and SN 2010B.
Supernova SN 2009nr confirmation picture was takne with the GRAS09-telescope (CBET 2111). The confirmation picture of the SN 2010B (CBET2115) was taken in Taurus Hill Observatory.
Publications list has been updated.
The publication list of the Taurus Hill Observatory has been updated. Now there are all publications of the year 2009.
Taurus Hill Observatory Board and Staff Members for the Year 2010.
Veli-Pekka Hentunen will be the Chairman of Board in the year 2010 and Tuomo Salmi takes the responsibility of the leading the research group of the Taurus Hill Observatory and Warkauden Kassiopeia. Other changes are Seija Purhonen as Financial Manager and Markku Nissinen as researcher of the Taurus Hill Observatory. The full details of the […]
Supernova SN 2009iy discovered at Taurus Hill Observatory.
Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen started the new observing season by discovering the supernova SN 2009iy. This discovery was made 15th of August from the galaxy UGC 8520. At the time of the discovery the supernova SN 2009iy was only 17.9R magnitudes bright. The confirmation pictures were taken by Arto Oksanen (Hankasalmi Observatory, Finland) 19th of […]
Taurus Hill Observatory in European Planetary Science Congress 2009, Potsdam, Germany, 13.-18.9.
Taurus Hill Observatory has prepared a poster about the exoplanet research that is made in THO since 2006. The poster display time, time when the poster will be available for public, is from Wednesday 16 Sep 14:00 to Friday 18 Sep 13:00 and the attendance time is on Thursday 17 Sep 17:30–19:00. If You are […]
Superova SN 2009bw is very dim.
Superova SN 2009bw is very dim, about 17.5CR magnitudes. This photograph was taken by Markku Nissinen and Veli-Pekka Hentunen 19.8.2009. You can compare the brightness change in the second picture.
Supernova SN2009bw and other stellar objects.
Phographer: Veli-Pekka Hentunen SN 2009bw
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