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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2992      2014 Mar 28 15.58UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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TRANSIENT IN SCORPIUS = TCP J17154683-3128303
Koichi Nishiyama (Kurume, Japan) and Fujio Kabashima (Miyaki,
Japan) report their discovery of a magnitude 10.1 transient in Scorpius at:
RA 17h 15m46.83s  DEC -31 28’ 30.3” (2000) on 2014 Mar. 26.848UT on
unfiltered CCD. They confirmed the discovery on unfiltered CCD frames taken
2014 Mar 26.869UT. Survey frames from 2014 Mar 22.819 UT (limiting mag.=
12.5) and 23.836 UT (limiting mag.= 12.9) show no object, nor does DSS or
USNO-B1.0. The nearest star in the DENIS Database has position end figures
46.861s, 30.48", distance 0.44", magnitude I=14.222.

Rob Kaufman (Bright, Vic, Australia) reports a reddened object at mag
~V=11.6 (unfiltered DSLR image) on images of 2014 Mar. 27.653 UT.

Seiichiro Kiyota (Kamagaya, Japan) reports Rc=10.36, Ic=9.74 using TYC
7362-449-1 as a comparison on his images from 2014 Mar. 27.7091 UT. Image:
http://meineko.sakura.ne.jp/ccd/TCP_J17154683-3128303.jpg 

E. Kuulkers et al. The Astronomer’s Telegram 6015 reports that Swift
observations taken only hours after the discovery (March 27 03:39-03:51 and
04:42-04:51 UT) reveal a new, bright, X-ray source. 
The source is also seen in UVOT, with uvw1 magnitudes of 12.58 
+/- 0.02 and 12.61 +/- 0.02, for the 2 snapshots, respectively.
The positions they derive are consistent with the optical discovery
position. The mean X-ray spectrum is consistent with an (expanding) shell in
a nova. The position was covered during an XMM-Newton slew on UT 2011 March
4, but no source was seen with a 0.2-12 keV 2-sigma upper limit of 0.54 c/s.
Follow-up Swift ToO observations for the next days have been approved.

AAVSO advise TCP J17154683-3128303 has been added to VSX. Finder charts with
a comparison star sequence for TCP J17154683-3128303 may be created using
VSP. Please report observations to TA/BAA/AAVSO as TCP J17154683-3128303.
AAVSO Special Notice #383

SUPERNOVA 2014P IN ESO 264-G49 (PARKER)
2014P   Feb  2.51   10 54 04.00  -45 48 43.6  17.8r  1  “W   17  “N  
M. Ergon: spectrum Feb 6 type-IIn supernova similar to SN 1995G +35 days.

SUPERNOVA 2014Q (KISS)
2014Q   Jan 29.42   08 18 50.20  +57 06 02.9  19.2   2.4”W    2.7”S
Li Zhou et. al. report an independent discovery of this apparent supernova
at mag 16.8 on unfiltered CCD images taken on Feb. 8.62
E. S. Walker: spectrum Feb 5 type-Ia supernova, 6-2d before maximum

Guy M Hurst