[IAUC] CBET 1515: 20080926 : SUPERNOVA 2008ft IN UGC 2866

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1515
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SUPERNOVA 2008ft IN UGC 2866
     Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen, Kangaslampi, Varkaus, Finland,
report their discovery of an apparent supernova (red mag 18.4) on 90- and
250-s CCD images (limiting unfiltered mag 19.8; limiting Bessel-R-filtered
mag 19.1) taken with a Meade 30.5-cm LX200 GPS/UHTC/OTA f/10 telescope (+
SBIG ST8-XME camera) on Sept. 23.80 UT; confirming 90- and 200-s images
taken on Sept. 24.79 show the new object at red mag 18.1.  SN 2008ft is
located at R.A. = 3h50m18s.54, Decl. = +70o05'46".4 (equinox 2000.0), which
is 18" east and 6" north of the center of the galaxy UGC 2866.  Nothing is
visible at this position on a Palomar Sky Survey F plate (limiting red mag
20.8).  There is a bright area at the position of 2008ft on a Palomar Sky
Survey N (near-infrared) plate, but when they compare images of 2008ft to
the discoverers' own reference images from Aug. 29/30, they note a very
clear brightening at this position.
     Editor's note:  Due to a glitch in the archiving algorithm for newly
designated supernovae (which should now be corrected), SN 2008ff (cf.
CBETs 1488, 1508) was not properly inserted into the Central Bureau's
lists of supernovae (either internally or that posted at the website URL
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/RecentSupernovae.html); thus, it was
missed during the running of normal searches for known objects when the
report (cf. CBET 1514) of a new supernova in ESO 284-G32 was received
from M. Hamuy (despite the findings of the subsequent search for prior-
received e-mails for objects at that same position, which produced the
report by Tan).  As the object announced as 2008ft on CBET 1514 is
clearly identical with the type-Ia supernova 2008ff, the designation
2008ft is being now re-used for the new supernova announced above.


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2008 September 26                (CBET 1515)              Daniel W. E. Green