https://www.legacysurvey.org//viewer/?ra=152.7376&dec=-4.6768&layer=ls-dr9&zoom=16&const
to me that pink color is unmistakeable. anytime I have seen that color on LS it has been an SN. looks small. nothing in simbad for it.
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nothing in TNS. I dont have access to Aladdin, but in the small window on simbad I dont see anything there either.
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maybe even slightly brighter in dr10
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I have been staring at this object over and over again trying to figure out what it is. I do not think it is an artifact or a asteroid or cosmic ray. It is not in other images of Sextans A. I do believe it is part of the dwarf galaxy. upon further inspection though it is slightly different in color to other pink SNs I have seen. oddly I found it on the same day Anton Petrov posted a video about a new object type in the Milky Way called a Peculiar Embedded Icy Object and I just posted here about that Chemically Peculiar Star and said I was going to be using Peculiar in my day to day conversations going forward and it is so strangely coincidental to me. pic is from linked video from Anton of a Peculiar Embedded Icy Object.
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It appear in exposures hundreds of days apart, so I don’t think its a SN. I think its probably just a red star in the dwarf galaxy.
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Thanks for responding. I wish I had this kind of interaction on social media. I try to share the stars and night sky with people and get nowhere with it. I thought it was odd that I couldnt really identify it in single exposures. it doesnt show up in dr9 models at all, yet seems to be one of the brightest objects in dr9 residuals. It also seems to be brightening and bigger in dr10 but once again lacking in models. also I cant see it in other images of SextansA from hubble even though I should be able to. it also seems to have an odd color which drew me in to begin with.
could it be getting ready to go nova? producing lasers like Eta Carinae?