Circular No. 7964

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SUPERNOVAE 2002ev, 2002ew, 2002ex, 2002ey

     Four new supernovae have been discovered on unfiltered CCD
images, as listed below.  SN 2002ey was found on LOTOSS KAIT images
(cf. IAUC 7906) by D. Hutchings and W. D. Li, and the other three
were found by W. M. Wood-Vasey et al. (cf. IAUC 7916) on Palomar
NEAT images.

SN       2002 UT          R.A. (2000.0) Decl.   Mag.   Offset
2002ev   Aug. 24.26   20 23 00.85  - 1 48 14.6  18.8   8" E, 7" S
2002ew   Aug. 24.34   20 54 30.50  - 0 08 26.0  17.8   4" S
2002ex   Aug. 19.28   22 09 00.79  -10 36 25.8  19.5   1".5 N
2002ey   Sept. 3.3    23 10 12.33  + 7 32 59.9  17.7:  5".8 E, 5".5 N

Additional magnitude estimates with the same instrumentation for
each respective object:  SN 2002ev, June 8 UT, [20.5; July 20,
[20.5; Aug. 4, [20.5; 15, 20.0-20.5 (hint); 24.31, 18.8; 25, 19.1;
31, 18.7; Sept. 3, 18.7.  SN 2002ew, June 10, [19.5; Aug. 4, [19.5;
24.40, 17.8; 25, 17.7.  SN 2002ex, July 22, [20.5; Aug. 8, [20.5;
17, 20.0-20.5 (hint); 19.40, 19.5; 28, 18.7.  SN 2002ey, Aug. 17.3,
[19.0:; Sept. 4.3, 17.7:.

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Host galaxy info:  Anonymous

SN type info: Ia-pec

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