------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2811 2012 Mar 30 11.34UT 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 Backup: gmh@wdcc1.bnsc.rl.ac.uk WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.theastronomer.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOVA CENTAURI 2012 John Seach, Chatsworth Island, NSW, Australia, reports on CBET 3073 his discovery of a possible magnitude 9.2 nova on images (limiting mag 11.0) taken on 2012 Mar. 23.386 UT with a digital SLR camera and 50-mm f/1.0 lens. The new object is at: RA 13h 41m 08s DEC -58 15' 47" (2000) Nothing is visible at this position on a red Palomar Sky Survey image. Paul Camilleri measured end figures RA 09.34s, DEC 17.5" and mag 8.4 from a 30-s unfiltered CCD image taken on Mar.24.470 with a 0.35-m f/6 reflector at the Grove Creek Observatory. Ernesto Guido et. al., advises TAHQ that images were obtained remotely using Faulkes Telescope South on Mar. 24.5, yielding Bessel-R magnitude 9.3 and position end figures 09.36s, 16.9". F. M. Walter, Stony Brook University, obtained a spectrogram on Mar. 27.3 UT using the SMARTS 1.5-m telescope at Cerro Tololo. The variable is a classical "Fe II"-type nova. SUPERNOVA 2012al (CSS) 2012al Feb 24.33 10 06 11.61 +47 17 40.6 18.1 1.6"E 1.4"S L. Tomasella: spectrum Feb 25 type-IIn SUPERNOVA 2012am IN UGC 6015 (T. ORFF ET. AL.) 2012am Feb 24.27 10 54 01.67 +46 01 38.9 17.6 7.7"W 1.6"S Type-Ia supernova 2006cf also appeared in UGC 6015. L. Tomasella: spectrum Feb 25 young type-IIn. SUPERNOVA 2012an IN NGC 6373 (J. NEWTON ET. AL.) 2012an Feb 21.54 17 24 10.23 +59 00 06.9 17.4 16.3"E 24.2"N Type-II supernova 2001ad also appeared in NGC 6373 S. W. Jha: spectrum Feb 26 similar to SN 1997dd (type-IIb) but age uncertain SUPERNOVA 2012ao (MOUNT LEMMON SURVEY) 2012ao Feb 25.49 15 16 42.88 -14 38 38.1 19.8 1 "S S. W. Jha: spectrum Feb 26 type-Ia about three weeks past maximum. SUPERNOVA 2012ap IN NGC 1729 (LOSS) 2012ap Feb 10.23 05 00 13.72 -03 20 51.2 17.3 29.2"W, 16.9"N D. Milisavljevic: spectrum Feb 21 type-Ic Guy M Hurst