Circular No. 7547

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SUPERNOVA 2000fo IN PGC 70148

M. Schwartz, Cottage Grove, OR, reports the discovery by LOTOSS (cf. IAUC 7514) of an apparent supernova (mag about 16.5) on unfiltered images taken with the 0.5-m Tenagra III automatic telescope on Dec. 21.1 and 22.0 UT. The new object is located at R.A. = 22h58m25s.34, Decl. = +26o38'26".6 (equinox 2000.0), which is 5".5 west and 5".8 north of the nucleus of PGC 70148. An image of the same field taken with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (cf. IAUC 6627, 7126) under poor conditions on Dec. 13.1 already showed a hint of SN 2000fo, while an image of the field taken with the 0.5-m Tenagra III automatic telescope on Dec. 6.1 showed nothing at this position (limiting mag about 19.0).

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Host galaxy info: V = 7152 km/s; 0.9' x 0.3'; 15.3; Sb

SN type info: Unknown

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