THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 569       1991 Oct 08 20.16UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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COMET McNAUGHT-HUGHES (1991y)
Robert H. McNaught reports his discovery of a comet on an R plate
taken by S. M. Hughes with the U.K. Schmidt Telescope at Siding
Spring.  The discovery plate shows the comet as strongly condensed,
with a diffuse 2' tail in p.a. 250 deg.  The following measurements
by McNaught include his Oct. 1 observation from an Uppsala Southern
Schmidt telescope film:
     1991 UT             R.A. (1950) Decl.        m1    Observer
     Sept.30.51236   23 09 59.79   -18 49 21.1   16.5   Hughes
          30.55403   23 09 58.67   -18 49 20.4            "
     Oct.  1.45787   23 09 36.13   -18 48 49.9          McNaught
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SUPERNOVA 1991az IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
J. Mueller reports her discovery of a supernova (blue mag about 18)
located 10".1 west and 3".4 south of the center of a galaxy at
R.A. = 2h22m.4, Decl. = +24 02' (equinox 1950.0).  The discovery
plate was taken by J. D. Mendenhall and Mueller on Sept. 15 UT with
the 1.2-m Oschin Telescope in the course of the second Palomar Sky
Survey.
A. V. Filippenko and T. Matheson, University of California at
Berkeley, report that a CCD spectrogram (range 390-710 nm,
resolution 1 nm), obtained on Oct. 2 UT with the Shane 3-m
reflector at Lick Observatory, shows that SN 1991az is of type II.
Broad H-alpha emission is prominent, but the corresponding
absorption line is weak.
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SUPERNOVA 1991ba IN ESO 244-IG32
R. H. McNaught, Anglo-Australian Observatory, reports his discovery
of an apparent supernova (mag about 18.5) in the irregular galaxy
ESO 244-IG32.  The image appears on a V plate taken by S. M.Hughes
with the U.K. Schmidt Telescope on Oct. 2.6 UT.  Located at
R.A. = 1h28m36s.57, Decl. = -42 42'58".6 (equinox 1950.0,
uncertainty 0".6 in each coordinate), the supernova lies on the
brighter, western edge of the galaxy.  It is offset from the center
of the galaxy (there being no obvious nucleus) by 1" west and 11"
north. No star appears in this position on the ESO B or R surveys
(the galaxy is heavily overexposed on the SERC J survey). A nearby
star of mag about 15 is located at R.A. =  1h28m31s.22,
Decl. = -42 43'39".0.
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COMET SHOEMAKER-LEVY (1991z)
E. Bowell, Lowell Observatory, communicates the following precise
positions, measured by S. J. Bus, of a new comet discovered by C.
S. Shoemaker, E. M. Shoemaker, and D. H. Levy with the 0.46-m
Schmidt telescope at Palomar. The object is described as condensed.
     1991 UT             R.A. (1950) Decl.        m1
     Oct.  2.30243    0 23 38.25   - 7 29 11.2    16
           3.30625    0 22 48.57   - 7 25 13.8
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Guy M Hurst