On June 25 it was spotted by the Lick SN survey telescope. http://www.supernovae.net/snimages/
Last night I had horrid transparency but at least it was fairly good seeing. First imaging night in over 2 months. Oddly this was my next Arp target. So was the planned target the next good night. For 2 months of no imaging I get a SN along with an Arp! The SN is the star above and right of the nucleus. It is 7.2" north and 6.2" west of the nucleus of the tadpole. I only have 2 hours of darkness so, even though seeing would support 1x1 binning I didn't use it in order to image it in one night. Good thing as thunderstorms had me without power until a short time ago tonight. Hence the late posting.

This is just a quick and dirty processing of a small part of the image. There's lots of faint fuzzies out of this cropped frame. I'll try to post a link to that later but is getting late tonight to continue work on it.

I get a magnitude of 18.1 while it is stated at 18.3. Since I can't easily separate glow of the galaxy from the star it is more likely I'm wrong than it has brightened. Though I did try to account for the galaxy in my estimate.

The Arp classification of this one is a galaxy with "narrow filaments." Guess that covers a single filament as well.

This galaxy also was the home of a SN last year SN 2007cu, mag 16.3 so keep watching this space!

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x10' binned 2x2, RGB=2x10 binned 3x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick

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Well done Rick. Your timing was impeccable. Looks like you would have caught this even without the notice from Lick.

Kent

Another great catch Rick!, Looks good as is looking forward on your completed image soon. Clear Skies

excellent shot rick,
shooting bewteen thunderstorms is typical for me too!

good processing job as well....

you got the tadpole tail quite nicely !

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That reminds me I was going to post a full version of this one. That's been done under a separate post. Image was very noisy and I didn't deal with it well in this image. I hope the redo is better. Not what I want but when weather is against you you take what it gives you.

http://www.spacebanter.com/attachmen...tid=2005&stc=1

Rick