[IAUC] CBET 1223: 20080124 : SUPERNOVA 2008P IN NGC 2550A

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SUPERNOVA 2008P IN NGC 2550A
     Alessandro Dimai, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on behalf of the CROSS
program (cf. IAUC 7373), reports his discovery of an apparent supernova (mag
about 17.5) on two unfiltered CCD images (limiting magnitude about 18.5)
taken on Jan. 23.88 UT with the 0.5-m "Ullrich" telescope of the Col Drusci
Observatory; confirming images from Jan. 24.85 show 2008P at mag 16.1.  The
new object is located at R.A. = 8h28m39s.18, Decl. = +73o45'02".9 (equinox
2000.0), which is about 3" west and 10" north of the nucleus of the galaxy
NGC 2550A (cf. Sulentic and Tifft 1973, *The Revised New General Catalogue*,
p. 116).  Nothing is visible at this position on a CROSS image taken on 2007
Dec. 17 (limiting mag about 19.0) or on Palomar Sky Survey infrared, red,
and blue plates.


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2008 January 24                  (CBET 1223)              Daniel W. E. Green