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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1571      2000 Oct 15 09.01UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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TA 2000 SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Thank you to all those who e-mailed the editor confirming
non-receipt of the September issue. We have endeavoured to answer
all individual messages during the last week.

To keep you fully informed, the current position is that the
Post Office at Reading did process all overseas mail and UK
subscribers A-Go but not beyond indicating they have lost one
of the three boxes of mail sent out by us on September 21.

At the AGM we arranged to issue replacements to those requesting
them from the small stock of spares we normally hold. However
your replies now indicate a print re-run is necessary. The Post
Office requested completion of a compensation form which was sent
on 2000 Oct 10 and they have promised to investigate and reply
by Tuesday Oct 17 either to say they have traced the missing
items or to authorise the cost of a re-run and associated
postage. We therefore expect to despatch replacement copies to
those who did not attend the AGM during the last week of
October. We offer our sincere apologies for this matter which
was clearly outside our control.

SUPERNOVA 2000dq IN MCG +00-6-43
A. B. Aazami and W. D. Li, University of California at Berkeley, on
behalf of the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, report the
discovery with the 0.8-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT)
of an apparent supernova (mag about 18.5) on unfiltered images
taken on Oct. 1.4 and 3.3 UT.  An earlier image taken on Sept. 19.4
also showed a hint of the new object.  SN 2000dq is located at
R.A. = 2h08m20s.98, Decl. = +1 11'00".8 (2000), which is 11".4 east
and 2".2 south of the nucleus of MCG +00-6-43.
IAUC 7504 (extract)

SUPERNOVA 2000dr IN IC 1610
M. Modjaz, D. Weisz, and W. D. Li, University of California at
Berkeley, on behalf of the Lick Observatory Supernova Search,
report the discovery with the 0.8-m Katzman Automatic Imaging
Telescope (KAIT) of an apparent supernova on unfiltered images
taken on Oct. 5.3 (mag about 18.1) and 6.3 UT (mag about 17.8).
The new object is located at:
R.A. = 1h01m44s.04, Decl. = -15o34'09".1 (2000), which is 20".9
east and 5".5 south of the nucleus of IC 1610.
IAUC 7505 (extract)

Guy M Hurst