Circular No. 7353

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SN 2000F in IC 302

M. Papenkova, and W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley, on behalf of the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (cf. IAUC 6627, 7126) report the discovery of an apparent supernova on unfiltered images taken on Jan. 29.2 and 30.2 (both with mag about 17.5) with the 0.8-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT). SN 2000F is located at R.A. = 3h12m52s.71, Decl. = +4 42'34".4 (equinox 2000.0), which is 21".2 east and 8".8 north of the nucleus of IC 302. An unfiltered KAIT image taken on Jan. 10.2 already showed a hint of the new object, while an image taken on 1999 Dec. 30.3 showed nothing at the position of SN 2000F (limiting mag 19.0).

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Host galaxy info: V = 5904 km/s, 1.9'x1.3', SB(rs)bc

SN type info: Ic

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