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Image: SN2023ixf in Messier 101

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Description: This image shows the core-collapse supernova SN2023ixf with its host galaxy Messier 101 in the constellation Ursa Major (UMa) one day after its discovery. This image has been taken with a 20-inch reflector at the OST observatory in Potsdam (Germany) in the night of the 20.05.2023. It is an L-RGB composite with 6x1 minute sub-exposures for the Bessel R, V, and B-Bands. For the luminosity information is made from 477x30 seconds sub-exposures.
Title: SN2023ixf in Messier 101
Credit: Own work
Author: Florian Rünger
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License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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