Electronic Telegram No. 2673

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 2011ar IN UGC 2509

     Further to CBET 2671, M. Kandrashoff, 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
 2011ar   Jan. 27.20   3 03 25.21  + 4 29 39.9   19.0    15".1 E, 8".9 N

Additional KAIT magnitudes for 2011ar in UGC
2509:  a co-added frame from Dec. 2010 to Jan. 2011, [20.3; 2011 Jan. 28.19
UT, 19.2.

Host galaxy info: vel= 6019 km/s ; 1.0' x 0.3'; 15.38mag; S?

SN type info: II

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