Electronic Telegram No. 2702

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 2011br IN NGC 5881

Further to CBET 2678, M. Mason, K. Lin, 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
 2011br   Apr. 9.50   15 06 20.20  +62 59 00.6   18.2    5".2 W, 10".0 S

Additional CCD magnitudes for 2011br:  Mar. 10.54
UT, [19.3 (KAIT); Apr. 10.48, 18.4 (KAIT); 11.133, 18.2 (Joseph Brimacombe,
Cairns, Australia; remotely using a 51-cm RCOS telescope + STL11K camera + red
filter at New Mexico Skies Observatory, Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position end
figures 20s.17, 00".6); 17.245, 17.8 (Brimacombe).  Brimacombe's Apr. 11 image
is posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/5610004688/; his image
from Apr. 17 is posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/5629808506/.

Host galaxy info: vel= 6584 km/s ; 0.8' x 0.7'; 14.30mag; Scd

SN type info: Ib

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