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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1494      2000 Feb 09 19.43UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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SUPERNOVA 2000F IN IC 302
M. Papenkova, and W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley,
on behalf of the Lick Observatory Supernova Search report the
discovery of an apparent supernova on unfiltered images taken on
Jan. 29.2 and 30.2 (both with mag about 17.5) with the 0.8-m
Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT). SN 2000F is located at
R.A. = 3h12m52s.71, Decl. = +4 42'34".4 (2000), which is 21".2 east
and 8".8 north of the nucleus of IC 302.  An unfiltered KAIT image
taken on Jan. 10.2 already showed a hint of the new object, while
an image taken on 1999 Dec.30.3 showed nothing at the position of
SN 2000F (limiting mag 19.0).
IAUC 7353

COMET P/2000 C1 (HERGENROTHER)
Carl Hergenrother, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, reported a
new object (discovery observation below) that showed an 11" tail in
p.a. 300 deg on one of four CCD images taken with the 0.41-m
Schmidt telescope at Catalina.  Following posting on The NEO
Confirmation Page, numerous CCD observers have reported cometary
appearance, as follows:  Feb. 5.3 UT, coma diameter about 12",
brighter 60" tail in p.a. 290 deg, extending more faintly to 180"
(J. E. McGaha, Tucson, AZ, 0.62-m reflector); Feb. 5.5, tail about
12" long toward the northwest (G. Billings, Calgary, AB, 0.36-m
reflector); Feb. 5.7, slightly diffuse with very faint tail about
10" long to the northwest (G. J. Garradd, Loomberah, N.S.W., 0.45-m
reflector); Feb. 6.1, coma diameter 0'.1, tail 0'.3 long in p.a.
290 deg (P. Pravec and P. Kusnirak, Ondrejov, 0.65-m reflector);
Feb. 6.4, faint tail < 10" long in p.a. about 290 deg (D. T. Durig,
Sewanne, TN).  Prediscovery observations by LINEAR on Jan. 4 and 8
have also been identified.  Complete astrometry and the following
orbital elements appear on MPEC 2000-C30:

     2000 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.        m1
     Feb.  4.45802   12 10 38.72   + 4 53  6.1   17.1

     T = 2000 Mar. 18.7279 TT         Peri. =  50.6637
     e = 0.410396                     Node  = 127.1207  2000.0
     q = 2.099992 AU                  Incl. =   6.1192
       a =  3.561702 AU    n = 0.1466283    P =   6.722 years
IAUC 7357

SUPERNOVA 2000G IN UGC 1773
T. Puckett, Mountain Town, GA, reports his discovery of an apparent
supernova (mag 17.2) on an unfiltered CCD frame (limiting mag 20.1)
taken with the Puckett Observatory 0.60-m automated supernova
patrol telescope on Feb. 5.04 UT.  SN 2000G is located at
R.A. = 2h18m15s.27, Decl. = +13o12'19".4 (equinox 2000.0), which is
0".13 east and 3".3 north of the centre of UGC 1773.  The new
object was also present on an unfiltered CCD frame taken on Feb.
7.00, but it was not present on a frame taken on 1999 Sept. 7.34 --
nor does SN 2000G appear on a Palomar Sky Survey images taken on
1990 Oct. 14 (limiting mag about 21.2) or 1950 Aug. 14 (limiting
mag about 20.0).
IAUC 7358 (extract)

Guy M Hurst