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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1715      2001 Nov 25 14.40UT
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
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SUPERNOVA 2001gb IN IC 582
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 an unfiltered image taken with the
0.5-m Tenagra III automated telescope on Nov. 20.5 UT (mag about
16.8).  SN 2001gb is confirmed at mag about 18.2 on an earlier
image taken by the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) on
Nov. 11.5.  The new object is located at:
R.A. = 9h59m00s.96, Decl. = +17o49'12".4 (2000), which is about
10".8 east and 11".1 north of the nucleus of IC 582.
IAUC 7758 (extract)

SUPERNOVA 2001gc IN UGC 3375
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 an unfiltered image taken with the
0.5-m Tenagra III automated telescope on Nov. 21.4 UT (mag about
16.2).  SN 2001gc is confirmed at mag about 16.8 on an earlier
image taken by the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope under poor
conditions on Nov. 19.5.  The new object is located at:
R.A. = 5h55m26s.14, Decl. = +51o54'34".2 (equinox 2000.0), which is
7".3 east and 4".3 south of the nucleus of UGC 3375.
IAUC 7759 (extract)

SUPERNOVA 2001fv IN NGC 3512
This object, discovered by Mark Armstrong and announced on TA E-
Circular 1708, has been spectroscopically confirmed as follows:

T. Matheson, S. Jha, P. Challis, and R. Kirshner, Harvard-
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, report that a spectrum (range
370-750 nm) of SN 2001fv, obtained by P. Berlind on Nov. 14.52 UT
with the F. L. Whipple Observatory 1.5-m telescope (+ FAST
spectrograph), shows it to be a type-II supernova well past maximum
light.  The spectrum shows a continuum with well-defined P-Cyg
lines of hydrogen, sodium, and iron, consistent with the plateau
phase of a normal type-II supernova.
IAUC 7756 (extract)

Guy M Hurst