Circular No. 7959

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SUPERNOVAE 2002ep, 2002eq, 2002er, 2002es, 2002et
 

     The discoveries of several apparent new supernovae have been
reported from unfiltered CCD frames.  SNe 2002ep and 2002eq were
reported by W. M. Wood-Vasey et al. from Palomar NEAT images (cf.
IAUC 7953), while the remaining three objects were found on LOTOSS
KAIT images (W. D. Li, B. Swift, and M. Ganeshalingam; cf. IAUC
7906).

SN       2002 UT          R.A. (2000.0) Decl.   Mag.   Offset
2002ep   Aug.  6.47   21 57 21.66  - 7 51 24.8  18.7   about 5" W
2002eq   Aug.  8.36   21 19 00.19  -16 17 12.7  19.6   about 4" S
2002er   Aug. 23.2    17 11 29.88  + 7 59 44.8  17.5:  12".3 W, 4".7 N
2002es   Aug. 23.5     3 23 47.23  +40 33 53.5  16.4:  18".8 W, 25".5 N
2002et   Aug. 24.3    20 08 31.02  -25 27 37.5  16.5:  2".1 W, 6".8 S

Additional magnitude estimates with the same instrumentation for
each respective object:  SN 2002ep, July 13 UT, [20.5; 23, [20.5;
Aug. 7.5, 18.7; 17.4, 19.0.  SN 2002eq, July 4, [20.5; 19, [20.5;
18.3, 19.4.  SN 2002er in UGC 10743, Aug. 16.2, [19.0:, 24.2, 16.9:.
SN 2002es in UGC 2708, Feb. 15.2, [19.0:; Aug. 12.5, 18.5:,
24.5, 16.3:.  SN 2002et in MCG -04-47-10, Aug. 2.3, [19.0:, 10.3,
hint; 25.3, 16.5:.

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Host galaxy info: vel = 2569 km/s, 1.1 x 0.4, 14.74, Sa?

SN type info: Ia

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