------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1996 2004 May 20 09.50UT 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPERNOVA 2004bm IN NGC 3437 LOSS discovery of a possible supernova (IAUC 8335): SN 2004 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2004bm Apr.25.21 10 52 35.33 +22 56 05.5 17.5 6.2"W, 2.5" N SUPERNOVA 2004bn IN NGC 3441 LOSS discovery of a possible supernova (IAUC 8335): SN 2004 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2004bn Apr.23.23 10 52 31.06 + 7 13 41.2 18.8 1.3"W,11.5" N SUPERNOVA 2004bo IN ESO 576-G54 LOSS discovery of a possible supernova (IAUC 8335): SN 2004 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2004bo Apr.30.28 13 26 06.39 -19 46 32.6 17.0 19.8"W, 3.8" N SUPERNOVA 2004bq IN ESO 597-G32 LOSS discovery of a possible supernova (IAUC 8336): SN 2004 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2004bq May. 5.48 20 43 58.28 -20 40 25.7 17.3 2.9"W, 8.3" N SUPERNOVA 2004br IN NGC 4493 LOSS discovery of a possible supernova (IAUC 8340): SN 2004 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2004br May.15.3 12 31 07.80 + 0 36 47.6 16.3 9.0"W, 0.6" S SUPERNOVA 2004bp IN MCG +06-25-14 The discovery of this object by Mark Armstrong was reported on TA E-Circular 1995. The reference to the discovery IAUC should have read 8335 and not 6335. R. J. Foley, D. S. Wong, M. Ganeshalingam, A. V. Filippenko, and R. Chornock, University of California, Berkeley, report on IAUC 8339 that inspection of CCD spectra (range 330-1000 nm), obtained on May 12 UT with the Shane 3-m telescope at Lick Observatory, shows that SN 2004bp is of type Ia, several weeks past maximum, although the spectrum is rather noisy. Hitoshi YAMAOKA, Japan, advises us that the host galaxy for this object is an apparent early spiral (Sa in the LEDA database). The expected maximum for typical SN Ia is about magnitude 17.1. Guy M Hurst