Electronic Telegram No. 3706

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

SUPERNOVAE 2013gh IN NGC 7183

  Further to CBET 3302, K. Hayakawa, S. B. Cenko, W. Zheng, W. Li, and A.
V. Filippenko report the LOSS discovery of an apparent supernova in NGC 7183
on unfiltered KAIT images:

 SN       2013 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2013gh   Aug. 8.34   22 02 21.84  -18 55 00.4   18.3     3".2 E, 1".2 S

The variable was designated PSN J22022184-1855004 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2013gh based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below.  Additional CCD magnitudes for
2013gh:  Aug. 6.38 UT, [18.9 (KAIT); 9.36, 18.4 (KAIT); 11.538, R = 15.9 (J.
Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; 32-cm RCOS telescope + STL6K camera + red
filter; position end figures 21s.85, 00".4; image posted at website URL
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/9500512932/); 12.522, 15.3
(Brimacombe; 41-cm RCOS telescope + STL6K camera + infrared filter; bandpass
> 700 nm; position end figures 21s.87, 00".2; image posted at website URL
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/9496704281/).

Host galaxy info: vel= 2635 km/s ; 3.8" x 1.1"; 12.69; S0+ pec sp HII

SN type info: Ia

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