SN 2011W

Electronic Telegram No. 2651

Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University; 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A. e-mail: cbatiau@eps.harvard.edu (alternate cbat@iau.org) URL http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

SUPERNOVA 2012cg IN NGC 4424




SUPERNOVAE 2011U AND 2011W
     Further to CBET 2634, S. B. Cenko, W. Li, and A. V. Filippenko report the
LOSS discovery of an apparent supernova on unfiltered KAIT images:

 SN       2011 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2011W    Jan. 16.12   0 32 51.24  +11 44 07.5   18.6    12".0 E, 4".8 S

Additional KAIT magnitudes for 2011W in UGC 323:  a co-added image from
2010 Sept.-Dec, [19.8; 2011 Jan. 18.11 UT, 18.5.  

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Host galaxy info: vel= 4928 km/s ; 0.9' x 0.3'; 15.21mag; S?

SN type info: II

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