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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1003      1995 Oct 07 12.06UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England. Telephone/FAX(0256)471074 Int:+44256471074
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SUPERNOVA 1995ab IN NGC 7663
C. Pollas, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (OCA), reports his
discovery of an apparent supernova (V = 17.7) on a technical pan
film obtained on Sept. 22.97 UT with the 0.9-m OCA Schmidt
telescope; the supernova is located at R.A. = 23h26m44s.46, Decl. =
-4o57'45".9 (equinox 2000.0), which is 11".3 west and 14".1 north
of the spiral galaxy's centre. SN 1995ab is not visible at this
location on the Palomar Sky Survey prints.
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SUPERNOVA 1995ac IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
Pollas also reports his discovery, on an OCA technical pan film
taken on Sept. 22.91 UT, of a supernova (V about 18.5) located
2".5 west and 4".2 south of the centre of an edge-on spiral galaxy
(mag about 16.5) at R.A. = 22h45m41s, Decl. = -8o45'.2 (equinox
2000.0).  Nothing is visible at this location on the PSS.
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SUPERNOVA 1995ad IN NGC 2139
R. Evans, Coonabarabran, N.S.W., reports his visual discovery of a
supernova located 25" west and 5" south of the nucleus of NGC
2139 (R.A. = 6h01m.1, Decl. = -23o40', equinox 2000.0); on Sept.
28.8 UT, Evans estimated mv = 14.0-14.5, noting that nothing was
visible at this location on Aug. 25 (0.41-m reflector).
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SUPERNOVA 1995ae IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
C. Pollas, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (OCA), reports his
discovery of a supernova (V = 18.5) on two Technical Pan films
obtained on Sept. 22.97 and 27.03 UT by D. Albanese and himself
with the OCA Schmidt telescope; the supernova is located at R.A. =
23h16m55s.65, Decl. = -2o04'36".4 (equinox 2000.0), which is 5".4
west and 0".5 north of the galaxy's centre (the galaxy itself being
of mag B about 17.0).  Nothing is visible at this location on the
Palomar Sky Survey prints or the Digital Sky Survey.  A nearby star
(V about 15) has position end figures 17m02s.55, 05'28".9.
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SUPERNOVA 1995af IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
C. Pollas, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (OCA), reports his
discovery of an apparent supernova (V = 20.5) on two films obtained
on Sept. 1.07 and 2.08 UT by D. Albanese and himself with the OCA
Schmidt telescope; the supernova is located at R.A. = 23h24m53s.45,
Decl. = +41o24'11".5 (equinox 2000.0), which is 5".4 west and 8".6
north of the spiral galaxy's centre (the galaxy itself of mag V
about 18.0).  An OCA Schmidt film taken on Sept. 20.95 shows the
new object at V = 21.7.  SN 1995af was not visible on OCA Schmidt
films taken in 1991 Aug. and Sept. (limiting mag B = 22.0) or on
1995 Aug. 5.10 (to B = 20.0), nor is anything visible at this
location on the first and second Palomar Sky Survey photographs.  A
nearby star (V = 19) has position end figures 53s.33, 05".6.
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Guy M Hurst