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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1506      2000 Mar 31 08.10UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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The editor will be away and unavailable from today, March 31 until
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SUPERNOVAE 2000R, 2000S, 2000T, 2000U, 2000V, 2000W, 2000X
A. Amadon and G. Blanc, Service de Physique des Particules
(SPP), Centre d'Etude de Saclay (CES); J. Haissinski, Laboratoire
de l'Accelerateur Lineaire, Orsay; and J. Rich, SPP/CES, on behalf
of the EROS collaboration, report the discovery of seven supernovae
discovered in the course of the automated supernovae search with
the European Southern Observatory (ESO) 1-m Marly telescope at La
Silla (limiting mag about 21.5).  Each supernova was found by
subtraction of CCD images from reference images taken one year ago.
SN       2000 UT     R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.     V      Offset
2000R    Feb. 27   10 01 21.27  - 6 33 57.4  19.4    1".6 W, 1".7 S
2000S    Feb. 28   10 34 55.89  - 6 28 26.0  20.9   3".9 E, 10".9 S
2000T    Mar.  3   12 36 20.35  -12 28 23.3  21.0    2".7 W, 0".9 S
2000U    Mar.  4   12 45 27.90  -12 10 34.3  20.2    3".9 W, 1".5 N
2000V    Mar.  6   12 03 28.64  - 5 47 15.7  20.6    3".8 W, 0".6 S
2000W    Mar.  9   11 10 59.53  - 4 43 46.8  20.4    6".4 E, 3".5 S
2000X    Mar. 10   11 30 45.41  - 5 12 16.8  20.2    8".0 E, 5".7 S
IAUC 7384 (extract)

SUPERNOVAE 2000Y-2000at
B. E. Schaefer, Yale University, on behalf of the QUEST
collaboration (see Schaefer et al. 1999, Ap.J. 524, L103), reports
on 22 apparent supernovae discovered with the QUEST 16-CCD array
camera on the Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia 1-m Schmidt
telescope at Llano del Hato, Venezuela.  The total area searched
was 264 deg^2 between Mar. 1 and 15 to R = 20.8, with each clear
night receiving independent drift scans through B, V, and R
filters, so that the 22 objects all have well-sampled 3-color light
curves over roughly two weeks.  Each apparent supernova was found
by subtraction of QUEST reference images taken on five nights
between Feb. 8 and 14 and each new object has been confirmed via
images taken on four or more nights in March.  Five of the objects
have no apparent host galaxy, to R about 21.5.
IAUC 7387 (extract)
Editor: Further details can be supplied on request but all are
very faint!

SUPERNOVA 2000au IN MCG +8-15-14
T. Puckett and A. Langoussis, Mountain Town, GA, report the
discovery of an apparent supernova (mag 17.9) on an unfiltered CCD
frame (limiting mag 19.3) taken with the Puckett Observatory 0.35-m
automated supernova patrol telescope on Mar. 28.16 UT.  SN 2000au
candidate is located at R.A. = 7h53m08s.40, Decl. = +50o07'35".3
(2000), which is 5".1 west and 14".5 south of the centre of
MCG +8-15-14.  SN 2000au was also present on an unfiltered CCD
frame taken on Mar. 29.05, but it does not appear on an unfiltered
image taken on Feb. 29.15, neither does the object appear on
Palomar Sky Survey images taken on 1998 Mar. 24 (limiting mag about
21.0) and 1954 Dec. 30 (limiting mag about 20.0).
IAUC 7389 (extract)

Guy M Hurst