SN 1917A

SN 1917A is a supernova event in the Fireworks Galaxy, positioned west and 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 was most likely 13 million years old with 15 times the mass of the Sun. B. Koplitz and associates in 2021 inferred a progenitor mass estimate of. A 2020 search for light echoes from the supernova was unsuccessful.