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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1102     1996 July 26 18.37UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
INTERNET: GUY@TAHQ.DEMON.CO.UK             GMH at AST.STAR.RL.AC.UK
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SUPERNOVA 1996al IN NGC 7689
Robert Evans and R. Benton, Coonabarabran, N.S.W.; and S. Beaman,
Pimpama, Queensland, report their visual discovery on July 22.71 UT
with the Australian National University 1-m telescope at Siding
Spring of a supernova (mag about 14.0) located about 30" north of
the centre of NGC 7689.
The object does not appear on previous ESO survey films or on CCD
survey images.  J. Pogson and S. Ryan, Anglo-Australian
Observatory, observing with the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope,
measured the position of SN 1996al as
R.A. = 23h33m16s.1, Decl. = -54o05'02" (equinox 2000.0);
a red spectrogram taken with an echelle spectrograph (UCLES)
revealed H-alpha in emission, with a width coarsely estimated at
some 20.0 nm, consistent with expansion velocities associated with
a supernova.
IAUC 6437

Guy M Hurst