this beautiful blue orb disappears in G & R bands, hiding next to an impressive galaxy. could it be part of the distant galaxy?
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I checked Transient Name Server and nothing at those coordinates.
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Hmm, it does look like a transient - appears for a few days around 2023-06-14.
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it wasnt there in 2019 in G and appears in 2023. but it is odd that it is and isnt there in R band in 2023. if not a transient why is it suddenly appearing in single exposures?
it is a little strange to me thst it is both there and not there in R in 2023 just two months apart. I hadnt noticed that they were that close of dates in R band.
I had been waiting for a good time to bring this up here only because I cant get anyone else to respond to me and I would like LS to know. last year there was a lot of hype about Tau Corona Borealis the Blaze Star recurring nova which had been expected in the second half of 2024.
On 8/9/24 while camping along the Iowa River in a non electric no lights site and a sky as clear as it gets. Everyone else had gone to bed and I decided to stay up and watch shooting stars. Laying there in my sleeping bag suddenly a exceptionally bright light appeared, so bright I thought a plane or something had spotlighted me. Then it flashed and I saw light being shed from it like ripples in water. it then blazed brightly again and stopped. I turned on my dead phone to get the time; 11:34 so it could have been 11:33 pm cst. it blazed again brightly later that night. not sure of the time. my eyes hurt badly from starring so long and trying to focus. oh to have new glasses that day!
I have written NASA, Astronomy Professors, Variable Star organizations, Startalk, Neil Degrasse Tyson at the Observatory. most never responded, some told me to go somewhere else, others told ke I couldnt be right because Blaze Star was expected to act according to our preconcieved notions. and that it was just late. is the Summer ever late? are the solar cycles late? is a star ever late? The Hurricane Season comes but the storms are never the same. and I think that is true for Tau Corona Borealis. it was overcast the rest of that weekend. and I pray I wasnt the only person who saw, I beg that somebody documented it on video somewhere. I believe strongly I saw the Blaze Star and why it acted differently I am not for sure, but finding out is important for when it blows again in 79 years and important for the other Nova’s I hope to see in the future. if my phone had not been dead, I might have missed it, I might have been here. If my brother and friends had not gone to bed, i’d hsve still been starring at a smoldering camp fire.
I would like to add that I did not mention it here earlier, because I thought the possibility I could be wrong was there and people were frankly telling me that elsewhere. I thought I would see it on the news the next day and share that joy with others and I thought Astronomy would pick it up. now that it has not arrived, I am certain I saw a Nova with my own eyes.
I would also like to make a special mention for Meta who while I was attempting to draw attention to what I saw was censored on both Facebook and Instagram. I was a Top Fan on Startalks FB account and shortly before the debates they suddenly deleted my account, wouldnt tell what I had done wrong demanded I send copies of my Drivers License etc. I then lost access to my Instagram account until after the election for supporting Mr Kennedy. a known tactic as he himself was being censored as were his other supporters.
Mark Zuckerberg even admitted that Meta was censoring users before and during the election, promising to stop censoring, a promise they gave, not kept. and I can only hypothesize and wonder if it was a concerted effort in some sick way to cover an event some might have seen as a sign. if that is true, then Science is in danger. Astronomy has been under attack before. Funding and Research isn’t what it used to be. I do not mind searching the heavens on LS and I will continue to as long as allowed, I will share it with others as I have always done. But I know that it has a cost associated with keeping NERSC supercomputers running and staff employed. I might win the 1.5 billion lottery and oh what glorius funding Astronomy will have then! I might build a telescope! a giant greek helmet laying on the ground, two lenses poking out of the eye slots. Art and Astronomy.
I’ve crossposted this to https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/talk/1269/1766180?comment=6347533
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I really appreciate that. I need to log in over there. I hot email that you had posted this transient for me. thank you! I also saw Ine had posted one earlier as well. I’m sure there’s others posted I’d like to check out! It is such a beautiful blue colored one. at 100 arcseconds out it is industinguishable on my phone. When I found it last night the jump to and others stuff like arcseconds were not showing. so who knows how that influenced my wandering and panning out. I also shared it on my instagram @joshua_of_arts in an attempt to bring more people to LS. Sky Viewer. LS is such a hidden gem and im honestly shocked there’s not thousands of people enjoying it and searching it everyday. maybe there are and they just dont post or interact. I’ve even shared it with my local library and they never wrote back. One day I believe that will change, hopefully before the whole sky is mapped. We got a head start on em.
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