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Photographer:

Efrain Morales Rivera

Location of Photo:

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date/Time of photo:

03/20/12, 05:27ut

Equipment:

LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, F6.3, CGE mount, ST2000xm, AO8, CFW9, Astronmik Lum. filter only.

Description:

M95 a Barred Spiral Galaxy located in the constellation Leo (next to Mars now). It has a peculiar core of strings of clusters and currently several days ago a Super Nova has developed marked, Presently shines at magnitude 13 and is exspected to brighten more. Light reflections spikes due to Mars being close 1/2 deg. effected the image the inset is before without the SN. Same Equipment on both images and author.

Website:

www.jaicoa-observatory.com

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