Circular No. 7765

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SUPERNOVA 2001hf IN MCG -03-23-17

M. Schwartz, Cottage Grove, OR; and W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley, on behalf of LOTOSS (cf. IAUC 7514), report the discovery of an apparent supernova (mag about 16.1) on unfiltered images taken with the 0.5-m Tenagra III automated telescope on Nov. 27.3 and Dec. 4.5 UT. The new object is located at R.A. = 9h05m07s.44, Decl. = -18o31'04".8 (equinox 2000.0), which is 4".5 west and 6".9 north of the nucleus of MCG -03-23-17. A Tenagra III image taken on Nov. 16.4 showed nothing at this position (limiting mag about 19.0).

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Host galaxy info: vel = 4486 km/s, 1.0 x 0.3, 15, S

SN type info: II

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