Circular No. 7729

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SUPERNOVA 2001es IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY

W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley, reports the discovery by LOTOSS (cf. IAUC 7514) of an apparent supernova (mag about 18.0) in unfiltered images taken with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) on Oct. 7.4 and 8.4 UT. SN 2001es is located at R.A. = 2h02m08s.27, Decl. = +19o05'27".5 (equinox 2000.0), which is 0".8 west and 2".5 north of the nucleus of a galaxy that is itself located about 150" west and 84" north of the nucleus of UGC 1518. A KAIT image of the same field taken on Sept. 27.4 showed nothing at this position (limiting mag about 19.0).

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Host galaxy info: Unknown

SN type info: Ia

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