[IAUC] CBET 1628: 20081222 : SUPERNOVA 2008ij IN NGC 6643

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1628
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SUPERNOVA 2008ij IN NGC 6643
     [Editor's note:  this text replaces that on CBET 1627]
     P. Challis, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), on
behalf of the CfA Supernova Group, reports that a spectrum (range 320-850
nm) of 2008ij (cf. CBET 1626), obtained on Dec. 21 UT by Challis with the
Multiple Mirror Telescope (+ Blue Channel), shows it to be a young type-II
supernova.  The spectrum consists of a blue continuum with shallow P-Cyg
profiles of the Balmer series.


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2008 December 22                 (CBET 1628)              Daniel W. E. Green