Electronic Telegram No. 2716

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 2011cf IN NGC 2939

Further to CBET 2702, M. Kandrashoff, K. Lin, 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
 2011cf   Apr. 28.24   9 38 08.28  + 9 31 11.1   18.2    5".9 E, 14".8 S

Additional KAIT magnitudes for 2011cf:  2010 Apr.
12.21 UT, [19.3; 2011 May 1.17, 18.0.  The type-IIP supernova 2009ao also
appeared in NGC 2939 (cf. CBET 1711).

Host galaxy info: vel= 3339 km/s ; 2.6' x 0.7'; 13.15mag; SB-c

SN type info: II

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