Shortly after I posted this image on SkyandTelescope.com. I was recently contacted by a group of professional European Radio Astronomers who had just imaged the supernova at radio wavelengths. To do this, they connected a network of radio telescopes in Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and Finland using the very long baseline interferometry technique. In so doing, they made a radio telescope roughly the size of Europe that permitted them to image the supernova with unprecedented resolution, down to a fraction of a light-year. They said the equivalent would be to image a golf ball on the lunar surface. They were going to show their image in multiple European press releases. However, it is very difficult for the public to interpret what they are seeing in radio astronomy images, so they wanted to display their image alongside a visible light image of the galaxy and supernova for reference. They searched the internet thoroughly and they liked this image, taken with the STL 11000M, the best. They asked permission to use it in their press releases provided they credited me. I was happy that my amateur image was able to help this group of professional astronomers. The image below is  an image from one of their press releases. It uses my image to show the visual appearance of the supernova with a zoomed in high resolution radio image of the supernova. Exposures: Left image: L:R:G:B exposures=184:70:70:70 minutes=7 hours 4 minutes total exposure.  Right image: Same supplemented with LRGB=44:44:44:40 minutes=2hour 52minutes additional exposure at f/8.3.

This image was selected as Editors" Choice on SkyandTelescope.com and for SBIG Image Sharing on SBIG.com.