Electronic Telegram No. 2701

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 2011bq IN IC 1288

     Further to CBET 2699, P. Blanchard, S. B. Cenko, W. Li, and A. V.
Filippenko report the LOSS discovery of an apparent supernova on unfiltered
KAIT images:

 SN       2011 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2011bq   Apr. 15.52   18 29 22.36  +39 42 34.5   17.9    1".0 W, 14".0 S

 Additional CCD magnitudes for 2011bq:  2010 Oct.
15.14 UT, [19.1 (KAIT); 2011 Apr. 16.391, 17.8 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns,
Australia; remotely using a 51-cm RCOS telescope + STL11K camera + red
filter at New Mexico Skies Observatory, Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position end
figures 22s.44, 34".8).  Brimacombe's image is posted at the following
website URL:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/5624024607/.

Host galaxy info: vel= 5689 km/s ; 1.1' x 0.7'; 14.29mag; SBa

SN type info: II

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