Electronic Telegram No. 2712

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 2011cc IN IC 4612

Further to CBET 2699, M. Mason, 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
 2011cc   Mar. 17.52   16 33 49.44  +39 15 48.7   17.7    2".3 W, 0".9 N

Additional KAIT magnitudes for 2011cc:  2010
Sept. 13.16 UT, [19.1 (KAIT); 2011 Apr. 17.51, 17.6 (KAIT).  Joseph
Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia, reports this a red-filtered image taken
remotely with a 51-cm RCOS telescope at the New Mexico Skies Observatory
near Mayhill, NM, U.S.A., on Apr. 18.471 shows 2011cc at position end
figures 49s.48, 47".8, noting that the variable was too close to the
galaxy core to get easy photometry.

Host galaxy info: vel= 9562 km/s ; 0.75' x 0.74'; 14.4mag; E/S0

SN type info: IIn

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