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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1512      2000 Apr 11 08.35UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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EDITORIAL ABSENCE
The editor will be attending a NASA Workshop and AAVSO meeting in
Huntsville, Alabama and will therefore be unavailable from the
evening of April 11 until the morning of April 21.

Please restrict e-mails to urgent matters during that period or,
for routine observational reports (eg aurora), send direct to
the relevant sub-editor.

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such messages in the TA Editor's mailbox for review upon my
return.

SUPERNOVA 2000bh IN ESO 573-14
J. Maza, University of Chile; and M. Hamuy, University of Arizona,
report the discovery by R. Antezana, on a 30-min unfiltered T-Max
400 film taken by L. Gonzalez on Apr. 5.23 UT with the University
of Chile's Maksutov telescope, of a supernova (m_pv about 16.0)
located at R.A. = 12h21m15s.14, Decl. = -21o59'55".7 (2000), which
is about 8" west and 11" south of the nucleus of the host galaxy
(ESO 573-14, z = 0.023).
IAUC 7397 (extract)

SUPERNOVA 2000bi IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
M. M. M. Santangelo, Lucca, Italy, reports his discovery with
the Monte Agliale 0.51-m reflector, in the course of the Monte
Agliale Supernovae Search, of an apparent supernova in a member
galaxy of the Abell 576 cluster.  SN 2000bi was found at R about
18.4 on three unfiltered frames taken on Mar. 22.90 UT, and
confirmed on ten frames taken on Apr. 7.92 (R about 19.2) and 8.85
(R about 19.2); the limiting magnitude of all these frames is R
about 20.0.  The new object is located at R.A. = 7h21m33s.46,
Decl. = +55o45'30".9 (2000), which is about 12" east and 4" north
of the host galaxy nucleus.
IAUC 7398 (extract)

SUPERNOVA 2000bj IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
D. Kirkman, Bell Laboratories (BL) et.al., report the discovery of
a possible supernova (V about 24.3) on CCD 600-s V frames taken
with the Cerro Tololo 4-m telescope (+ Mosaic II camera) on
Apr. 5.039 UT.  SN 2000bj is located at R.A. = 10h51m27s.24,
Decl. = -5 08'29".6 (2000), which is about 0".9 north of the
centroid of a faint galaxy.
IAUC 7398 (extract)

Guy M Hurst