[IAUC] CBET 1210: 20080116 : SUPERNOVAE 2008H AND 2008I

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1210
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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SUPERNOVAE 2008H AND 2008I
     Further to CBET 1208, P. Thrasher, W. Li, and A. V. Filippenko report
the LOSS discovery of two apparent supernovae on unfiltered KAIT images,
as tabulated below:

SN      2008 UT        R.A.  (2000.0)  Decl.    Mag.      Offset
2008H   Jan. 15.45    9 47 13.45  -24 50 25.8   17.4   0".2 E, 2".7 S
2008I   Jan. 15.53   11 56 09.66  +60 31 31.5   19.3   3".7 W, 10".4 N

Additional KAIT magnitudes for 2008H in ESO 499-G5:  2007 Mar. 19.18 UT,
[19.0; Nov. 3.55, [17.6; Dec. 22.54, 17.3; Dec. 23.55, 17.3.  Additional KAIT
magnitudes for 2008I in NGC 3978:  2007 Mar.-June, [20.5 (combined KAIT image
from multiple frames taken over several months); 2008 Jan. 2.54, 19.1.  The
type-Ia supernova 2003cq also appeared in NGC 3978 (cf. IAUC 8103, 8106).


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2008 January 16                  (CBET 1210)              Daniel W. E. Green