Electronic Telegram No. 2837

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 2011ge IN UGC 11253

Further to CBET 2772, 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
 2011ge   Sep. 21.14   18 29 40.90  +23 04 01.0   19.5    17".4 E, 5".4 S

Additional KAIT magnitudes for 2011ge:  a co-
added image from Aug. 2011, [20.5; Sept. 23.15 UT, 19.4.  Joseph Brimacombe,
Cairns, Australia, has posted an unfiltered CCD image that he took on Sept.
27.199 at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6193373952/.

Host galaxy info: vel= 4145 km/s ; 1.0' x 0.15'; 15.7mag; Sc

SN type info: II

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