Electronic Telegram No. 3037

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 2012ap IN NGC 1729

Further to CBET 3015, L. Jewett, S. B. Cenko, W. Li, and A. V. Filippenko
report the LOSS discovery of an apparent supernova on unfiltered KAIT images:

 SN       2012 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2012ap   Feb. 10.23   5 00 13.72  - 3 20 51.2   17.3    29".2 W, 16".9 N

Additional CCD magnitudes for
2012ap:  Feb. 5.21 UT, [18.7 (KAIT); 11.256, 17.5 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns,
Australia; remotely using a 51-cm RCOS telescope + STL11K camera + luminance
filter at the New Mexico Skies Observatory near Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position
end figures 13s.74, 51".2).  Brimacombe's image is posted at the following
website URL:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6859557419/.

Host galaxy info: vel= 3632 km/s ; 1.6' x 1.3'; 13mag; SA(s)c

SN type info: Ic

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