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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1537      2000 Jly 03 10.29UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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SUPERNOVA 2000cq IN UGC 10354
W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley, on behalf of the
Lick Observatory Supernova Search, reports the discovery with the
0.8-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) of an apparent
supernova on unfiltered images taken on June 23.3 UT, with
confirmation images taken taken on June 24.3 (limiting mag about
20.5) and 25.3 (limiting mag about 21.5), all showing the new
object at mag about 19.3.  SN 2000cq, which also showed a hint of
presence in images taken on May 30, June 2, 11, 15, and 20, is
located at R.A. = 16h21m21s.34, Decl. = +40o48'09".7 (2000), which
is 7".8 west and 28".6 south of the nucleus of UGC 10354.
IAUC 7442 (extract)
T. Puckett, Ellijay, GA, reports that he detected SN 2000cq
independently on an unfiltered CCD image taken on June 3.127 UT,
when it was at mag 19.6, and he provides the following precise
position for the supernova:
R.A. = 16h21m21s.33, Decl. = +40o48'09".9 (2000).
IAUC 7443

SUPERNOVA 2000cr IN NGC 5395
Marco Migliardi and Alessandro Dimai report their discovery of
a supernova (mag about 17) on CCD images taken on June 25.90 and
25.94 UT with the 0.5-m Ullrich telescope at the Col Drusci
Observatory in the course of the CROSS program.  SN 2000cr is
located at R.A. = 13h58m38s.37, Decl. = +37o26'12".4 (2000), which
is 2" east and 44" north of the centre of NGC 5395.
W. Li, University of California at Berkeley, reports that SN
2000cr is present (mag about 16.7) on an unfiltered KAIT CCD image
obtained on June 26.2 UT.  Li provides position end figures for the
supernova:  38s.37, 12".9, which he notes to be 4".2 east and 45".2
north of the nucleus of NGC 5395.
S. Jha, P. Challis, and R. Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, report that a spectrum of SN 2000cr, taken by
M. Calkins on June 26.17 UT with the F. L. Whipple Observatory
1.5-m telescope (+ FAST spectrograph), shows it to be a type-II
supernova at an early epoch.
IAUC 7443 (extract)

Guy M Hurst