Spiral galaxy maybe?

• by KimFryer

  What's this please?

  Posted November 7, 2016 7:39 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Hi KimFryer and welcome to the Zoo

  This is indeed a spiral galaxy. But determining how many spiral arms there are is not such an easy task ! 😄

  Happy hunting!

  Posted November 7, 2016 8:14 PM

• by KimFryer

  Thank you, it's good to be here, I feel right at home 😃 and yup, I had trouble counting the arms too! I also witnessed a supernova back in 2005.. SN2005GL it was amazing, have never seen anything like it.

  Posted November 7, 2016 11:45 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  We occasionally see supernovae in our images. You may be interested in the Unreported Supernovae page https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000007/discussions/DGZ00016qc

  Posted November 8, 2016 5:12 AM

• by KimFryer

  Oooh thank you 😃 I will definitely check it out. It lit up the whole sky and then just.. dissipated.. gone, amazing.

  Posted November 8, 2016 10:49 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  That sounds like a meteor, a small stone burning up in our atmospere, and quite a bright one too. Check the IMO page http://www.imo.net/ to see if they have listed it. Do you remember the date, time and location?

  A supernova lasts for several weeks, and you need a telescope to see them.

  Posted November 10, 2016 4:52 AM