Electronic Telegram No. 3422

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

SUPERNOVAE 2013ab IN NGC 5669

Further to CBET 3302, P. Blanchard, W. Zheng, S. B. Cenko, W. Li, and
A. V. Filippenko report the LOSS discovery of an apparent supernova on
unfiltered KAIT images:

 SN       2013 UT        R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2013ab   Feb. 17.54   14 32 44.49  + 9 53 12.3   17.6    7".5 E, 18".1 S

The variable was designated PSN J14324449+0953123 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2013ab based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below.  Additional CCD magnitudes for
2013ab:  Feb. 15.53 UT, [18.4 (KAIT); 18.443, 15.2 (J. Brimacombe, Cairns,
Australia; remotely with a 51-cm RCOS telescope + luminance filter located at
the New Mexico Skies Observatory near Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position end
figures 44s.45, 12".2); 19.030, V = 15.2 (M. Martignoni, Magnago, Italy;
0.25-m reflector; position end figures 44s.44, 12".1).  Brimacombe's image is
posted at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/8487144228/.

Host galaxy info: vel= 1371 km/s ; 4.0" x 2.8"; 12.03; SAB(rs)cd

SN type info: IIP

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