[IAUC] CBET 1672: 20090126 : SUPERNOVA 2009O

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1672
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SUPERNOVA 2009O
     L. A. G. Monard, Pretoria, South Africa, reports his discovery of an
apparent supernova (mag 17.1 +/- 0.4) on an unfiltered CCD image taken on
Jan. 15.806 UT at his Bronberg Observatory; additional images (limiting mag
around 19) by Monard yield the following magnitudes for 2009O:  Jan. 16.775,
17.2; 19.781, 17.3; 22.806, 17.5.  The new object is located at R.A. =
3h29m02s.35, Decl. = -52o37'00".8 (equinox 2000.0), which is 7" west and 27"
north of the core of a galaxy in the Abell cluster 3128; while 2009O is west
of the core of the galaxy IC 1946, 2009O likely belongs to an another galaxy
to the southwest of IC 1946.  A faint, extended object of mag > 18.8 is shown
at this position in Monard's earlier images of this galaxy (most recently
from 2006 Feb. 2.816) and on Digitized Sky Survey images.


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2009 January 26                  (CBET 1672)              Daniel W. E. Green