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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1422      1999 Jly 04 15.41UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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THE ASTRONOMER AGM
The 1999 Annual General Meeting of The Astronomer will take place
in Basingstoke on Saturday October 23.
Further details will be given shortly but in the meantime please
reserve this date in your diaries.

SUPERNOVAE 1999co AND 1999cp
J. Y. King and W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley,
on behalf of the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, report their
discovery of two apparent supernovae on unfiltered CCD images taken
with the 0.8-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT).

SN 1999co was discovered on frames taken on June 18.43 and 18.47 UT
(mag about 17.4) and confirmed on an earlier image taken on June
13.5 (mag about 17.8); an image of the field taken on June 7.5
under poor seeing conditions already showed a hint of the
supernova, which is on the northeast shoulder of the faint host
galaxy at R.A. = 21h03m19s.12, Decl. = -14o32'49".0 (2000). KAIT
images of the same field taken on May 29.5 (limiting mag about
18.0) and 19.6 (limiting mag about 19.0) show nothing at the
position of SN 1999co.

SN 1999cp was found on CCD frames taken on June 18.2 and 18.3 UT
(mag about 18.2), and confirmed on images taken on June 19.2 (mag
about 17.2); it is located at:
R.A. = 14h06m31s.3, Decl. = -5o26'49" (2000.), which is about 52"
west and 23" north of the nucleus of NGC 5468. KAIT images of the
same field taken on June 13.2 (limiting mag about 19.0) and
May 14.3 (limiting mag about 19.5) show nothing at the position of
SN 1999cp.
IAUC 7205


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NOVA IN NGC 6822
J. Y. King and W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley,
on behalf of the Lick Observatory Supernova Search with the 0.8-m
Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), report the discovery of
an apparent nova in NGC 6822, a dwarf irregular galaxy that is
probably in the Local Group.  The nova was discovered on unfiltered
images taken on June 23.40 and 23.44 UT (mag about 17.3) and
confirmed by an observation made on June 24.38 (mag about 17.0).
The new object is located at:
R.A. = 19h45m00s.31, Decl. = -14o50'10".3 (2000).  A KAIT image of
the same field on June 19.4 UT (limiting magnitude about 18.5)
showed nothing at the position of the nova. A finding chart for
the nova can be found at the URL:
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~bait/n6822.gif.
IAUC 7208

Guy M Hurst