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A magnitude 15.1 supernova, 2008eh, was discovered on the 21st July 2008, by B Monard in the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 2997 in the constellation Antlia.
The supernova is located 123”E 34”N of the centre of the galaxy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2997

adrive.com/public/ebaabd6d6e6ef12e614576aca2f2ee84dab6aa375de5b48c77 edb53c9effe03f.html Google sky file (1kb, kmz)

Position(2000): RA 09 45 48.16, Dec -31 10 44.9

cfa.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/001400/CBET001445.txt CBET 1445 (subscription)

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thanks blobrana this is interesting information for us star watchers.

does anyone have pics/viewing information on this?
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Supernovas are very useful to us, because we could find many things about the history by just looking at a supernova. And now i'm pretty sure that the astronomers are happy that a supernova occurred, lol.
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