------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1584 2000 Dec 02 12.39UT Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise, Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074 INTERNET: GUY@TAHQ.DEMON.CO.UK GMH at AST.STAR.RL.AC.UK WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.demon.co.uk/astronomer ------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPERNOVAE 2000es, 2000et, 2000eu L.-G. Strolger reports the discovery of three additional supernovae by the Nearby Galaxies Supernova Search team. Direct confirmation of each object was made on Nov. 22 by B.Anthony-Twarog (CTIO 0.9-m telescope) and by Strolger (Kitt Peak 0.9-m telescope). SN 2000 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. R Offset 2000es Nov. 16 4 06 17.87 - 3 23 18.2 19.7 4".6 W, 8" N 2000et Nov. 17 8 21 15.21 + 1 09 25.3 19.4 0".8 W, 5".2 N 2000eu Nov. 16 9 00 13.00 - 5 35 04.2 18.7 1".6 E, 1".2 S IAUC 7529 (extract) SUPERNOVA 2000ev IN UGC 3500 M. Villi, Piacenza, Italy, reports the discovery of a supernova (mag 16.5) on an unfiltered CCD image taken on Nov. 27.10 UT by Federico Manzini (Soffrago, Italy) with a 0.40-m telescope. SN 2000ev is located 4".5 west and 19" north of the nucleus of UGC 3500 (R.A. = 6h46m.9, Decl. = +84o10', equinox 2000.0), and it also appears on an image taken on Nov. 27.2 by R. Crippa (Tradate, Italy); nothing is visible at this position on images taken by Manzini on Sept. 1 or on the Digital Sky Survey. IAUC 7529 (extract) SUPERNOVA 2000ew IN NGC 3810 T. Puckett and A. Langoussis, Mountain Town, GA, report the discovery of an apparent supernova (mag 14.9) on an unfiltered CCD frame (limiting mag 18.5) taken with the Puckett Observatory 0.30-m automated supernova patrol telescope on Nov. 28.48 UT. The candidate is located at R.A. = 11h40m58s.52, Decl. = +11o27'55".9 (2000.0), which is 1".9 west and 20".7 south of the centre of NGC 3810. The new object was also present and confirmed (measured end figures 58s.56, 56".4) on unfiltered CCD frames taken with a 0.6-m reflector by G. J. Garradd, Biosphere 2 Observatory, on Nov. 29.39. The candidate does not appear on unfiltered images taken by Puckett during Feb. 8-May 8, and it does not appear on Palomar Sky Survey images taken on 1989 Apr. 4 and 1991 Apr. 17 (each limiting mag about 21.0). IAUC 7530 (extract) SUPERNOVA 2000ex IN ESO 419-G3 A. B. Aazami and W. D. Li, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), on behalf of LOTOSS, report the discovery with the 0.8-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) of an apparent supernova on unfiltered images taken on Nov. 26.4 (mag about 17.6) and 27.3UT (mag about 17.8). The new object is located at R.A. = 3h42m11s.71, Decl. = -27o51'48".0 (2000), which is 7".6 east and 3".4 north of the nucleus of ESO 419-G3 + MCG -05-09-022. A KAIT image of the same field on Nov. 17.4 also showed the supernova at mag about 17.8. IAUC 7530 (extract) SUPERNOVA 2000ey IN IC 1481 R. Chornock, W. D. Li and A. V. Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley, on behalf of LOTOSS, report the discovery with the 0.8-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) of an apparent supernova on unfiltered images taken on Nov. 11.2 (mag about 16.2), 20.2 (mag about 15.4) and 28.2 UT (mag about 15.6). The new object is located at R.A. = 23h19m25s.20, Decl. = +5o54'21".1 (2000), which is 0".6 east and 1".2 south of the nucleus of IC 1481. IAUC 7531 (extract) Guy M Hurst