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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1961      2004 Jan 19 15.23UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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SUPERNOVAE 2003le-2003lm
The above supernova designations have been assigned to ten discovery as 
part of the ESSENCE project. All were recorded between 2003 Dec 13-15 
and are of R magnitude 22.0 or fainter according to IAUC 8261.

SUPERNOVA 2003lo IN NGC 1376
Tim Puckett, USA, has reported his discovery of a supernova of magnitude 
17.2 in NGC 1376 recorded on 2003 Dec 31.14UT with the 0.50-m automated 
patrol telescope in collaboration with B. Kerns. It is located at:
RA 3h 37m 05.12s  DEC - 5 02' 17.3" (2000), 11.2"W, 16.3"N of the parent 
galaxy's nucleus according to IAUC 8261.

SUPERNOVA 2003lp IN UGC 6711
Puckett also reports on the same IAUC detection of another supernova, of 
magnitude 16.9, found in UGC 6711 in collaboration with D. Toth using 
the same instrumentation as SN 2003lo. This possible supernova is 
located at:
RA 11h 44m 28.57s DEC +69 43' 54.6" (2000), 6.9"W, 7"N of the parent 
galaxy's centre.

THE ASTRONOMER, 2004 JANUARY
I regret to advise magazine subscribers that during the print run for 
the January issue by Colourinc. Ltd, a fault developed on the particular 
machine used for our magazine which produced some white vertical lines 
through the front cover picture. This has only affected a proportion of 
the covers and as repairs are only likely to be effected towards the end 
of this week to the printing machine I elected to ask our production 
manager to despatch them tomorrow as usual to ensure our usual deadline 
was met.

The problem does not seem to have affected other areas of the magazine 
but I have exchanged e-mails with the printing company manager this 
morning to see if we can avoid a repetition. Please accept our apologies 
for any inconvenience caused. If any reader requires a copy of the front 
cover picture e-mailed to them please let me know.

Guy M Hurst