Electronic Telegram No. 2649

Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University; 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A. e-mail: cbatiau@eps.harvard.edu (alternate cbat@iau.org) URL http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

SUPERNOVA 2011U IN UGC 2985

     Further to CBET 2640, P. Blanchard, J. Kodros, S. B. Cenko, W. Li, and
A. V. Filippenko report the LOSS/KAIT discovery of an apparent supernova on
unfiltered KAIT images:

 SN       2011 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2011U   Jan. 28.22   4 13 33.94  +27 32 36.7   17.6    5".2 E, 6".7 N

Additional unfiltered CCD magnitudes for 2011U:  Jan. 8.27 UT, [19.0 (KAIT);
29.14, 16.6 (R. A. Koff, Bennett, CO, U.S.A.; position end figures 33s.82,
36".0, from 23 co-added images); 29.21, 17.5. 

Host galaxy info: vel= 4004 km/s ; 1.1' x 0.3'; 16.0mag; Scd

SN type info: Ia

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