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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2518      2009 Jan 10 20.39UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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NEW CATACLYSMIC VARIABLE IN AQUARIUS
K. Itagaki, Japan reports discovery of a previously unknown variable 
star on a wide-field survey CCD image taken on 2008 Dec. 16.420 UT with 
a 0.21-m f/3 reflector. Confirmation on Dec. 16.424 with a 0.60-m f/5.7 
reflector showed the variable's magnitude to be about 15.4 and its 
position:
RA 21h 31m 22.41s DEC -00 39' 36.8" (2000).
It was fainter than mag 17.5 on 2007 Nov. 2.492, and
fainter than mag 16.7 on 2008 Dec. 1.420.
A faint blue star (magnitudes u = 21.6, g = 21.4, r = 21.4, i = 21.7, z 
= 21.2) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey appears to be identical with the 
new variable.
Hitoshi Yamaoka suggests that photometry by Maehara (Kyoto University) 
and A. Miyashita (Tokyo) indicate that this variable is a SU UMa-type 
dwarf nova.

SUPERNOVA 2008ig IN ESO 269-20
Discovery by Alessandro Dimai of a possible supernova (CBET 1620):
SN      2008 UT      R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.    Mag.     Offset
2008ig  Dec. 15.78  12 58 05.70  -43 20 03.6  16.4    24  "W,16  "S
Images taken with a 25-cm Ritchey-Chretien Cassegrain "GRAS15"
remote-controlled telescope of the GRAS System at Moorook, Australia.

SUPERNOVA 2008ih IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
Assigned to a faint object reported by D. Sand, Harvard-Smithsonian 
Center for Astrophysics and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope 
Network et. al and located at:
RA 02h 57m 26.41s DEC +12 58'07.6" (2000).
Spectroscopic confirmation was obtained on Nov. 28 with GMOS-N on the 
Gemini telescope, showing 2008ih to be a type-Ia supernova at z = 0.061 
and around 15 days past maximum

SUPERNOVA 2008ii IN PGC 44965
Discovery by Berto Monard of a possible supernova (CBET 1625):
SN      2008 UT      R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.    Mag.     Offset
2008ii  Dec. 19.07  13 02 08.93  -32 47 36.5  16.8    23  "E,25  "S
The host galaxy is a member of the Hickson group 63.

SUPERNOVA 2008ij IN NGC 6643
Discovery by Koichi Itagaki of a possible supernova (CBET 1626):
SN      2008 UT      R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.    Mag.     Offset
2008ij  Dec. 19.45  18 19 51.81  +74 33 54.9  15.9    23  "E,11  "S
K. Kadota (Japan, 0.25-m reflector) confirmed it at mag 16.0 and 
position end figures 51s.80, 55".2.

SUPERNOVA 2008ik IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY
Discovery by the CHASE project of a possible supernova (CBET 1629):
SN      2008 UT      R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.    Mag.     Offset
2008ik  Dec. 17.14  03 36 09.54  -35 13 00.7  17.6     2.0"W, 1.3"N
M. Stritzinger et. al., on behalf of the Carnegie Supernova Project, 
report that a spectrum of Dec. 19.2 UT with the du Pont telecope (+ 
WFCCD) at Las Campanas Observatory, shows it to be a type-Ic supernova 
around maximum light.

Guy M Hurst