[IAUC] CBET 1377: 20080515 : SUPERNOVA 2008ck [correction to designation in table]

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SUPERNOVA 2008ck  [correction to designation in table]
     A. Mahabal, S. G. Djorgovski, A. J. Drake, M. J. Graham, R. Williams,
and R. Quimby, California Institute of Technology; A. Myers, University of
Illinois; E. C. Beshore and S. M. Larson, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory,
University of Arizona; and E. Christensen, Gemini Observatory, report the
discovery of a supernova in the course of the Catalina Sky Survey from
multiple sequences of unfiltered CCD exposures taken with the 0.7-m f/1.9
Catalina Schmidt telescope (+ 4000x4000 camera):

 SN       2008 UT        R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.
 2008ck   Apr. 27.41   15 22 42.30  +30 22 08.0   19.3

A possible host galaxy (with Gunn magnitude r about 21.7) is seen in
Sloan Digital Sky Survey images.  Spectroscopy using the Double Beam
Spectrograph at the Palomar 5-m reflector on May 6 shows 2008ck to be a
type-Ia supernova at about 2 weeks past maximum (with z about 0.065).


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2008 May 15                      (CBET 1377)              Daniel W. E. Green