Electronic Telegram No. 2694

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 2011bl IN UGC 8554

     Further to CBET 2678, I. Nayak, 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
 2011bl   Apr. 5.41   13 34 14.70  +37 12 34.8   16.9    0".4 W, 6".2 N

Additional unfiltered CCD magnitudes for 2011bl:
Mar. 10.46 UT, [19.3 (KAIT); Apr. 6.21, 16.6 (KAIT); 8.232, 16.0 (Joseph
Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; remotely using a 51-cm RCOS telescope + STL11K
camera at New Mexico Skies Observatory, Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position end
figures 14s.66, 35".0); 8.335, 16.5 (R. A. Koff, Bennett, CO, U.S.A.; position
end figures 14s.60, 33".5).  Brimacombe has posted his image at website URL
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/5602376520/.

Host galaxy info: vel= 5524 km/s ; 1.3' x 0.3'; 16.5mag; Sbc

SN type info: Ib/c

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