Electronic Telegram No. 2901

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 2011hr IN NGC 2691

Further to CBET 2837, I. Nayak, 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
 2011hr   Nov. 8.54    8 54 46.03  +39 32 16.1   16.9    3".4 W, 3".7 S

Additional CCD magnitudes for
2011hr (unfiltered unless noted otherwise):  Oct. 12.53 UT, [18.5 (KAIT); Nov.
9.58, 17.1 (KAIT); Nov. 10.111, 16.1 (Federica Luppi and Luca Buzzi, Varese,
Italy; 0.38-m f/6.8 reflector; position end figures 46s.07, 16".2; reference
stars from the CMC-14 catalogue; image posted at the following website URL:
http://www.astrogeo.va.it/pub/TOCP/PSN_N2691.jpg); Nov. 10.398, R = 16.0 (J.
Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; position end figures 46s.14, 16".6; image
posted at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6332304551/).

Host galaxy info: vel= 3981 km/s ; 1.12' x 0.82'; 13.9mag; Sa?

SN type info: Ia

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