Electronic Telegram No. 2655

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 2011ac IN UGC 4552

     Further to CBET 2651, P. Blanchard, M. Mason, 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
 2011ac   Feb. 11.29   8 43 22.16  +10 43 47.6   17.7    11".2 E, 13".9 N

 Additional (presumed unfiltered
CCD) magnitudes for 2011ac:  Feb. 2.31 UT, [19.2 (KAIT); 12.118, 18.1 (R. A.
Koff, Bennett, CO, U.S.A.; position end figures 22s.12, 48".1); 12.29, 17.8
(KAIT).

Host galaxy info: vel= 14030 km/s ; 1.0' x 0.7'; 14.62mag; Sb

SN type info: Ia

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