[IAUC] CBET 1086: 20070925 : SUPERNOVA 2007kg

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SUPERNOVA 2007kg
     H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory, reports the discovery of an apparent
supernova (mag about 17.1) on four unfiltered CCD images (roughly equivalent
to the R band) taken around Sept. 22.90 UT with a 60-cm f/3.3 Cichocki
reflector in the course of the "Comet and Asteroid Search Program" (PIKA) at
Crni Vrh Observatory.  The new object is located at R.A. = 23h58m37s.43,
Decl. = +60o59'06".7 (equinox 2000.0; uncertainty estimated as about 0".2),
which is approximately 7" east and 6" north of the center of a nearby faint
galaxy.  Nothing is visible at this location on several Palomar Sky Survey
images (limiting B and I magnitudes 20.0; limiting R mag 20.5) and 2MASS
images from the Aladin database.  Further confirming CCD photometry with the
same telescope on Sept. 23.974 using the USNO-B1 R2 catalogue yields R =
17.17 +/- 0.04 and B = 18.62 +/- 0.10.


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2007 September 25                (CBET 1086)              Daniel W. E. Green