Circular No. 7898

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SUPERNOVA 2002ct IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY

M. Schwartz, Cottage Grove, OR; and W. Li, University of California at Berkeley, report the LOTOSS (cf. IAUC 7514) discovery of an apparent supernova (mag about 20.1) on unfiltered images taken with the 0.81-m Tenagra II telescope on May 10.3 and 12.2 UT. The new object is located at R.A. = 12h47m22s.53, Decl. = +28o00'13".9 (equinox 2000.0), which is about 13" west and 8" south of the nucleus of the apparent host galaxy. A Tenagra II image taken on Apr. 14.3 showed nothing at this position (limiting mag about 22).

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Host galaxy info: Vel = 9790 km/s; 0.67 X 0.17; 16.4

SN type info: Unknown

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