------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1920 2003 Sep 20 09.44UT 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.theastronomer.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- TA ANNUAL AWARDS, VOLUME 39 It is once again time to invite all readers and subscribers to vote on the contents of the last volume of 'The Astronomer', number 39, which covered the period from 2002 May to 2003 April. As before two votes are needed: 1) Best contributor to the COVER material in volume 39 (The 'Alan Young' award). 2) Best OVERALL contributor to the magazine and 'TA' in general including our WWW site. (The 'George Alcock' award). The editor wishes to encourage as many people as possible to vote by e-mail where readers have this facility. Please send a simple message quoting cover, name; overall, name to guy@tahq.demon.co.uk Although e-mail is preferred, if you do wish to post your vote, a slip is enclosed with the September issue and must be returned to reach the editor by 2003 October 5 at the latest. SUPERNOVA 2003hz IN PGC 17866 The LOTOSS team have reported detection of a possible supernova in PGC 17866 on IAUC 8201. Details follow: SN 2003 UT RA (2000.0) DEC Mag. Offsets 2003 Sept. 14.5 5 48 07.86 +46 15 22.8 16.7 2.6" W, 1.6" N SUPERNOVA 2003ia IN NGC 6109 K. Itagaki, Yamagata, Japan has reported discovery of a possible supernova on images secured with a 0.60-m reflector: SN 2003 UT RA (2000.0) DEC Mag. Offsets 2003 Sept. 15.422 16 17 41.17 +35 00 07.2 17.2 7.5" E, 8.2" S SUPERNOVA 2003ib IN MCG -04-48-15 A further LOTOSS discovery reported on IAUC 8201: SN 2003 UT RA (2000.0) DEC Mag. Offsets 2003 Sept. 16.2 20 33 30.98 -24 37 15.0 17.6 1.0" E, 10.4" N SUPERNOVA 2003ic IN MCG -02-2-86 A further LOTOSS discovery reported on IAUC 8201: SN 2003 UT RA (2000.0) DEC Mag. Offsets 2003 Sept. 16.4 0 41 50.23 - 9 18 19.0 17.6 2.1" W, 7.6" S SUPERNOVA 2003id IN NGC 895 A further LOTOSS discovery reported on IAUC 8201: SN 2003 UT RA (2000.0) DEC Mag. Offsets 2003 Sept. 16.5 2 21 35.70 - 5 31 51.0 16.7 11.3" W, 34.6" S Guy M Hurst