Circular No. 7963

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SUPERNOVA 2002eu

D. Weisz and W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley, report the LOTOSS (cf. IAUC 7906) discovery of an apparent supernova on an unfiltered KAIT CCD image taken on Aug. 30.4 UT (mag about 17.4). The new object was confirmed on an earlier image taken on Aug. 25.4 (mag about 18.8). SN 2002eu is located at R.A. = 1h49m43s.60, Decl. = +32o37'43".0 (J2000.0), which is 10".5 east and 11".5 north of the nucleus of an anonymous galaxy. A KAIT image taken on Aug. 20.4 showed nothing at this position (limiting mag about 19.0).

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Host galaxy info: vel = 11280 km/s, 0.51 x 0.22, 16.30

SN type info: Ia

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