Circular No. 7770

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SUPERNOVA 2001ic IN NGC 7503

W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley, reports the discovery by LOTOSS (cf. IAUC 7514) of an apparent supernova (mag about 17.4) in an unfiltered image taken with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) on Dec. 7.2 UT. The new object is confirmed at about the same brightness on an image taken by M. Schwartz with the Tenagra III 0.5-m telescope on Dec. 8.2 under poor conditions. SN 2001ic is located at R.A. = 23h10m43s.34, Decl. = +7 34'10".4 (equinox 2000.0), which is 14".8 east and 6".4 north of the nucleus of NGC 7503. A KAIT image taken on Nov. 15.2 showed nothing at this position (limiting mag about 19.0).

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Host galaxy info: vel = 13262 km/s, 1.1 x 1.1, 14.29, E2:

SN type info: Ia

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