SN2023ixf/M101 on 20230524 compared to M101 two years ago

About the Object

M101 featured already several supernovae in the past decades, and since last Friday there is another one, this time of type II, i.e. an exploding high mass star. Last night
was clear so I could get a first shot at this object, the SN has meanwhile considerable brightness, comparable to the core of M101 and to some of the brighter foreground stars.

Observation Notes

In this montage I blink it with an image I collected two years ago, nicely showing the SN. Only minimum processing of the images was performed. Note that the image of two years ago
was done with a different telescope (10" Meade LX50 with Starizona LF reducer) at a somewhat different plate scale. Also the 2021 image had 10h of exposures while last night only 2.5h of data were taken.

Data were taken on Mar 9, 2021, April 20, 2021, April 25, 2021, and May 24th, 2023.

Technical Details

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