Electronic Telegram No. 2836

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 2011gd IN NGC 6186

Further to CBET 2772, 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
 2011gd   Aug. 28.16   16 34 25.67  +21 32 28.4   18.7    2".9 E, 0".9 N

Additional KAIT magnitudes for 2011gd:  a co-
added image from July 2011, [20.1; Sept. 3.15 UT, 17.5.

Host galaxy info: vel= 2937 km/s ; 1.71' x 0.83'; 13.4mag; (R')SB(s)a

SN type info: Ib

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