SN 1917A

id: sn-1917a-202-12166381
title: SN 1917A
text: SN 1917A is a supernova event in the Fireworks Galaxy, positioned 37″ west and 105″ south of the galactic core. Discovered by American optician George Willis Ritchey on 19 July 1917, it reached a peak visual magnitude of 13.6. Based on a poor quality photographic spectrum taken at least a month after peak light by F. G. Pease and Ritchey, it was identified as a type II core-collapse supernova. A 2018 analysis of the surrounding stellar population by B. F. Williams suggests the progenitor star wa
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date modified: 2023-09-10T21:35:55Z
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