In late January 2014 supernova erupted in two galaxies in Ursa Major. The first, SN 2014J was in the ever popular galaxy Messier 82 and it became one of the brightest in a while peaking at 10.6 magnitude. The second, SN 2014G was in the fainter yet interesting in its own right galaxy NGC 3448. At the time of this observation it was around 14.2 magnitude.



These sketches represent how I observed these two galaxies with their supernova on the evening of Feb 3, 2014 using my f/3.3 20 inch Starmaster at the Pearson College observatory. These sketches were made within minutes of each other. It was quite amazing to barely have to move my scope to be able to observe two different supernovae.