[IAUC] CBET 1479: 20080826 : SUPERNOVA 2008fb IN UGC 2813

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1479
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SUPERNOVA 2008fb IN UGC 2813
     Markku Nissinen, Kangaslampi, Varkaus, Finland, reports the discovery
by Veli-Pekka Hentunen and himself of an apparent supernova (red mag 16.9)
on CCD images (limiting red mag 19.3) obtained on Aug. 24.89 UT with a
Meade 30.5-cm f/10 reflector (+ SBIG ST-8 XME camera + Bessel R filter) at
Taurus Hill Observatory, Karhilantaipaleentie.  The new object is located
at R.A. = 3h42m36s.69, Decl. = +71o18'36".5 (equinox 2000.0), which is 13".5
east and 9".0 north of the center of UGC 2813.  Nothing is visible at this
position on a Palomar Sky Survey F plate (via the Digitized Sky Survey;
limiting red mag 20.8).
     J. Kajava, Oulo University; together with J. Fynbo, D. Della Monica
Ferreira, M. Michalowski, T. Zafar, and J. Sollerman, Dark Cosmology Center,
Niels Bohr Institute, report on spectroscopy of 2008fb obtained with the
Nordic Optical Telescope (+ ALFOSC; range 350-900 nm, resolution 0.8 nm) on
Aug. 26.25 UT.  The fully reduced spectrum of 2008fb shows it to be a normal
type-II supernova several weeks past maximum.


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2008 August 26                   (CBET 1479)              Daniel W. E. Green