High Energy Network (HEN)

In the presentations about SNEWS they talk about how amateurs can contribute with DSLR observations.

The advantages are:
-  It would be quick to setup
-  It's 3 color photometry automatically

But there are problems:
- the target might be very bright
- what if comp stars are not available?

I'd like to start a discussion about how to be prepared to do DSLR observations of a SN.

If the event is so bright that it can be done in daylight, how does one calibrate and establish comps?

George

If you don't already know the Space Telescope Public lecture series, this might be a good reason to explore it:

Topic: Neutrino Astronomy: A New Window into the Extreme Universe

Speaker: Marcos Santander, University of Alabama

Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 4:30 PM EDT (UTC-4)

Livestream: https://youtu.be/CDAolatU2HE

Information: http://www.stsci.edu/public-lectures

Cheers

HBE

Astro-Colibri is an application that alerts astronomers in real-time about astronomical transients like GRBs and supernovae. It is very useful if you wnt to get into the habit of being prepared to observe Gamma-Ray-Outbursts, e.g. as targets of opportunity while your observatory is ready doing other tasks.

Astro-Colibri can be used as a web-application, or, perhaps more useful when you want to be alerted in real-time, as a smart phone app for iOS and Android devices.

Interested? Check out : https://astro-colibri.herokuapp.com/

See ATEL 15244: https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=15244

Quote:

After suffering the loss of a reaction wheel, the SWIFT satellite was abe to partially resume it's science mission on Feb 17th, but it seems it is still not fully capable to swiftly (forgive me the pun) slew automatically to observe optical Gamma Ray Burst *afterglows*, this leaves an interesting opportunity for us terrestrial observers.

... in this article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00425-8

Hi, folks,

An interesting paper on a potential binary SMBH imminent collision was published at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.11633.pdf  recently.

Researcher Dr. Ning Jiang has requested observations in B and V of NSV 6690, the optical AGN of SDSSJ1430+2303.

AAVSO Sequence Team member Chuck Cynamon has updated the sequence and chart for NSV 6690.

Several observers are already contributing data to the database on this object.

Dr. Jiang is especially asking for data from systems with 1 arcsec pixel size or less, but all data is welcome.

Spectra are appreciated.

What a nice way to celebrate the event that happened 35 years ago: the Supernova SN1987A in the LMC :

https://physics.case.edu/real-time-supernova/

CS

HBE

Dear all!

I hope everyone here had a smooth transition to 2022! Let's hope this will be be a healthy and exciting year for the HEN observers.

Sorry for being silent for so long (a combination of professional obligations and really bad weather slowed down my astronomy activities to a standstill), but Dave and I as the HEN section leads have worked a bit behind the scenes to plan for some new stuff.