Supernovae and Quasar with SharpCap Live Stacking

In tonight's session, I set out to view 3 current supernova and manage to stumble across a quasar at a distance of 8.8 billion light years. I attempt to use SharpCap's Satellite Trail Removal and download current supernova data via AstroPlanner.

Please use the chapter markers to merrily skip through the video to each section.

00:00:00 Opening
00:00:42 Supernova 2024jlf and NGC5690
00:01:25 AstroPlanner Supernova Import
00:03:05 Supernova 2024iss and LEDA 1846725
00:04:19 Supernova Websites
00:04:49 Supernova 2024kjb and IC4566
00:05:21 Finding a Quasar
00:06:44 Quasar PGC3439980 found
00:07:44 Veil Nebula
00:07:56 Stellarium Catalogue Download

Hardware

Celestron CPC-800 at F6.3, ZWO ASI 533mm camera, and a SkyWatcher Moon and Skyglow filter.

Software

AstroPlanner 2.4 - Excellent planning and observation software. With the added benefit of a powerful scripting and web services interface. Check out the user scripting repository to integrate AstroPlanner with Stellarium and SharpCap. https://astroplanner.net/

Stellarium 24.1+ (beta) - A powerful and beautiful planetarium application. I have most planetarium software installed and this is my go to planetarium software. A decent size default star and deep sky catalogue, which can be expanded to 177 million stars and 1 million plus deep sky objects via simple downloads. Powerful scripting and web services interface, makes for easy expansion and integration with other like-minded astronomy applications.

Download the million+ catalogue from https://github.com/Stellarium/stellar... See the Stellarium manual section 5.2.2 for simple installation instructions.

SharpCap 4.1.12243 - The "bees-knees" of stacking software. If it can be stacked, Robin's magic software performs the deed. 😂

Supernova Websites

IAU Transient Name Server https://www.wis-tns.org/
Latest supernovae https://www.rochesterastronomy.org/su...

Have fun.

Pete