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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1625      2001 Apr 27 19.07UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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DV UMA (Q2001/031)
Chris Jones, Laindon, England, reports his detection of an outburst
of DV UMa, a star on the recurrent objects programme, on 2001
Apr 24.904UT at 14.5 visual with the 0.45-m Newtonian
(TA sequence). The outburst was also detected by M.Reszelski on
Apr 24.932UT at magnitude 14.4 v (0.41-m refl., AAVSO sequence) and
by Gary Poyner on Apr 24.965UT, 14.9v (0.46-m refl., VSNET seq.).

SUPERNOVA 2001aj IN UGC 10243
D. Weisz and W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley,
report the discovery by LOTOSS of an apparent supernova (mag about
18.0) on an unfiltered CCD image taken on Mar.30.5 UT (and
confirmed at about the same brightness on an earlier image taken on
Mar. 10.5) with the 0.8-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope
(KAIT).  SN 2001aj is located at R.A. = 16h10m30s.23,
Decl. = +19o57'01".2 (2000), which is 9".0 east and 13".5 south of
the nucleus of UGC 10243.
IAUC 7606 (extract)

SUPERNOVA 2001ak IN UGC 11188
M. Schwartz, Cottage Grove, OR; and W. D. Li, University of
California at Berkeley, on behalf of LOTOSS, report the discovery
of an apparent supernova on unfiltered images taken with the 0.5-m
Tenagra III automated telescope on Apr. 1.5 (mag about 18.4) and
3.5 UT (mag about 18.1).  SN 2001ak is located at
R.A. = 18h17m31s.44, Decl. = +18o54'00".8 (2000), which is about
24" east and 12" south of the diffuse nucleus of UGC 11188.
IAUC 7607 (extract)

SUPERNOVA 2001al IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
A. Gal-Yam and D. Maoz, Tel Aviv University, report for the
Wise Observatory Optical Transients Search their discovery of the
first supernova (R about 21.1) from the second phase of this
project on unfiltered CCD images taken by H.Mendelson on Mar. 26
with the wide-field SITe camera mounted on the Wise Observatory 1-m
telescope.  SN 2001al is located at R.A. = 15h44m51s.74,
Decl. = +36o07'29".0 (2000), which is in the field of the galaxy
cluster Abell 2122 (z = 0.065).                 IAUC 7607 (extract)

SUPERNOVAE 2001am-2001ax
B. E. Schaefer, University of Texas at Austin, on behalf of the
QUEST collaboration, reports on the discovery of twelve apparent
supernovae discovered with the QUEST 16-CCD array camera at Llano
del Hato.
SN       2001 UT     R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.     R      Offset
2001am   Mar. 15   9 11 47.43  - 1 18 58.2   19.1    0" E, 0" N
2001an   Mar. 15  10 05 35.76  - 1 28 42.0   19.1    3" W, 1" S
2001ao   Mar. 15  10 13 45.70  - 1 24 51.8   19.9    1" W, 1" S
2001ap   Mar. 15  12 18 23.32  - 1 54 48.5   18.9    0" E, 0" N
2001aq   Mar. 15  14 01 33.76  - 0 59 48.7   19.9    1" W, 0" N
2001ar   Mar. 15  14 40 53.46  - 0 39 24.6   18.7    0" E, 1" S
2001as   Mar. 16  15 09 45.32  - 0 55 38.0   19.1    1" W, 0" N
2001at   Mar. 16  15 10 09.06  - 0 58 29.2   18.8    0" E, 0" N
2001au   Mar. 16  15 16 49.17  - 0 07 46.6   18.6    3" E, 3" N
2001av   Mar. 23  15 43 02.92  - 2 02 20.0   20.2    4" E, 0" N
2001aw   Mar. 20  15 55 32.11  - 0 10 54.6   19.5    0" E, 0" N
2001ax   Mar. 20  16 07 13.69  - 0 04 49.2   17.5    0" E, 7" S
IAUC 7608 (extract)
Guy M Hurst