Supernovae Charts.

In this program there will be no charts in which to compare starfields or conduct magnitude comparison star photometry. The latter information will hopefully be made available once an event has been sanctioned by the IAU as being a bonifide event. The information of each galaxy in the program will be presented in tabular form. Reference photo's from which to conduct starfield comparisons once a suspect SN has been noted can be compared within the following reference sources: Thompson/Bryan Supernovae Charts Cambridge Univ. Press (1991). Deep Sky CCD Atlas: North and South by John C. Vickers Back River Observatory P.O. Box 1292 Duxbury, MA. 02331 Photographic Atlas (Vol 1,2,3) For Supernovae Search by Manual Lopez Alvarez (1989, 1990, 1991) Av. Cordoba 836-of. 1303 (1054) Buenos Aires, Argentina Or more detailed reference sources can be obtained by accessing: The Digitized Sky Survey. Skyview. A description of each service can be obtained by accessing an article in the quarterly magazine "Amateur Astronomy", #9 (Spring, 1996) published by Tectron, 2111 Whitfield Park Ave., Sarasota, FL., 34243 (aatclark@aol.com) by: Lew Haberly (pgs. 11-12). NOTE: The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has just come out with a further scaled down version of the Digitized Sky Survey that is currently available (10X version). This version is a 100X reduction of the original P.O.S.S., and comes on 8-CD-ROM diskettes. The price is about $300 US. I do not know if this product will be of any use in comparing suspect SNe against galactic starfields (ie.quality, clarity of the surrounding areas, etc.). Perhaps an evaluation can be made, and reported by some.