[IAUC] CBET 434: 20060320 : SUPERNOVA 2006aw IN ESO 85-G38

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SUPERNOVA 2006aw IN ESO 85-G38
     L. A. G. Monard, Pretoria, S. Africa, reports his discovery
of an apparent supernova (mag about 14.9 +/- 0.2) on unfiltered
CCD images taken on Mar. 15.747 and 15.858 UT with a 0.30-m reflector.
An image taken on Mar. 19.751 showed the new object at mag 15.2.
SN 2006aw is located at R.A. = 5h04m18s.18, Decl. = -63o34'57".3
(equinox 2000.0), which is 7" west and 2" south of the nucleus of
ESO 85-G38.  Nothing is visible at this location on Monard's
earlier images of this galaxy, the most recent having been taken
on Feb. 16.783 (limiting red mag 18.5).  Nothing is present at
this location on a red Digitized Sky Survey image (limiting mag
20.5).


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