SN 2018gv has been discovered by Koichi Itagaki @ January 15th, 2018 16:21:06 UT in NGC 2525 with a brightness of 16.5 mag.
Working on GAIA Photometric Alerts
Within the GAIA Science Alert project (GSA) teams a searching for transient events in the data of GAIA.
A transient event is anything in the sky which appear, changes or disapears. There is a website available which publishs transient alerts in real time: http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/
In the last year, I started to work together with a team @ University of Kent monitoring Young Stellar Object for outbursts.
read more...Supernove SN2017eaw discovered through TNS (Transient Name Server) by Patrick Wiggins on May 14th, 2017.
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