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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1932      2003 Oct 18 19.26UT
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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COMET P/2003 T1 (TRITTON)
P. Holvorcem, Brazil, has reported on IAUC 8215 that the co-
addition of three unfiltered CCD images of a fast-moving object of
magnitude 12.4 found by C. Juels, Fountain Hills, AZ, with a 0.12-m
f/5 refractor on 2003 October 6.442UT shows a coma of diameter 2'
and a hint of a 1'.5 tail at p.a. roughly 257 deg. Following a
suggestion by S. Hoenig, Germany) from orbital computations by M.
Meyer (Kelkheim, Germany), Brian G. Marsden has shown that this
comet is identical to the lost comet 1978d = 1977 XIII = D/1978 C2
(Tritton), which was observed for only a month.

EDITORIAL NOTICE
Further to the note on TA E-Circular 1930, the telephone fault
which has intermittently caused very poor Internet download and
upload speeds, has finally been resolved after a visit from a third
and more senior BT engineer. He traced 100 telephone wires had
parted from their casing in a local junction box and the one
relating to TAHQ had been found under water in the bottom of the
box!
Since then we have also suffered a lengthy power outage which has
only just been resolved today so we hope our normal service can, at
last, be resumed.

SUPERNOVA 2003il
This designation related to a magnitude 23 supernova found on
images of March 26 with the 2.5-m Nordic Optical Telescope.

SUPERNOVA 2003im IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
IAUC 8214 carries details of this discovery by the LOTOSS team:
SN       2003 UT       R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.   Mag.     Offset
2003im   Sept. 30.4    5 44 59.28  - 8 53 11.5  17.4  1.6"E, 11.6N

SUPERNOVA 2003in IN UGC 1956
A further LOTOSS supernova discovery on IAUC 8214:
SN       2003 UT       R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.   Mag.     Offset
2003in   Sept. 30.5    3 35 33.31  + 5 03 52.7  17.8  2.9"E, 8.5"S

SUPERNOVA 2003io IN UGC 1761
Tim Puckett, USA, has reported this supernova discovery (IAUC8214):
SN       2003 UT       R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.   Mag.     Offset
2003io   Sept. 30.27   2 17 26.87  +14 34 36.3  17.1  11.3"E,12.5"S

SUPERNOVA 2003ip IN UGC 327
Another LOTOSS supernova discovery announced on IAUC 8214:
SN       2003 UT       R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.   Mag.     Offset
2003ip   Oct.   1.3    0 33 16.76  + 7 54 19.5  16.5  20.3"E, 1.2"N

SUPERNOVA 2003ij IN UGC 3336
The discovery of this object by Tom Boles was reported on TA E-
Circular 1927. According to notes by Alex Filippenko on IAUC 8214,
a spectrum obtained with the Shane 3-m telescope on 2003 October 2
has established it is of type Ia, near maximum brightness.

SUPERNOVA 2003ik IN UGC 4185
This object found by Tom Boles was reported on TA E-Circular 1929.
Filippenko also reports it to be of type Ia, near maximum when the
spectrum was taken on October 2.

Guy M Hurst