Circular No. 8608

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SUPERNOVAE 2005eq, 2005er, AND 2005es

Further to IAUC 8605, N. Ponticello, E. Lee, and W. Li report
the LOSS discovery of three apparent supernovae on unfiltered KAIT
images:

SN      2005 UT      R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.    Mag.     Offset
2005eq  Sep. 30.40   3 08 49.31  - 7 01 59.7  17.4   15".9 E, 26".3 N
2005er  Sep. 29.22  22 50 00.84  +11 37 05.7  18.7   91".1 E, 34" N
2005es  Sep. 30.25  23 25 47.62  + 8 02 17.3  18.4   2".6 W, 8".3 S

Additional magnitudes:  SN 2005eq in MCG -01-9-6, Sept. 15.39 UT,
[19.0; Oct. 1.39, 17.2.  SN 2005er in NGC 7385, Sept. 8.21, [19.5;
13.23, [19.0; 24.22, [18.0; Oct. 1.23, 18.4.  SN 2005es in MCG
+01-59-79, Sept. 11.23, [19.5; 21.24, [18.0; Oct. 1.26, 18.7.

Host galaxy info: vel = 8687 km/s, 1.6 x 0.5, 14.6, SB(rs)cd?

SN type info: Ia-pec (91T)

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