Selztal Observation Site

Monitoring Super Novae using VDS Remote Telescope

Monitoring Super Novae with the VDS Remote Telescope can be done easily. Here as example the SN 2025 tam located in NGC 6708 in constellation telescopium. 
The adavantage versus "Pretty-Picture" Imaging is that you get results with a few images and do not need several nights to get a nice image. Focus is on estimating the brightness. 

NGC 6708 is located in the southern sky 36Mpc away. In the last 21 years, 3 SN events were observed, which is much more frequent versus our own galaxy, where we are waiting for a SN meanwhile for more than 400 years. 
SN 2025tam has be identiried as a SN of type (collapse of a massive star) 

Estimated Brightness August 21th, 2025 :  15.7 mag. Limiting magnitude is about 20 mag at a SNR of 10.
More information about SN-Monitoring can be found here