[IAUC] CBET 1836: 20090609 : SUPERNOVA 2009fw IN ESO 597-6

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SUPERNOVA 2009fw IN ESO 597-6
     G. Pignata, J. Maza, M. Hamuy, R. Antezana, L. Gonzalez, P. Gonzalez, P.
Lopez, S. Silva, G. Folatelli, D. Iturra, R. Cartier, F. Forster, S. Marchi,
and A. Rojas, Universidad de Chile; B. Conuel, Wesleyan University; and D.
Reichart, K. Ivarsen, A. Crain, D. Foster, M. Nysewander, A. LaCluyze,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on behalf of the CHASE project,
report the discovery of an apparent supernova (mag approximately 16.6 +/- 0.3)
on an R-band image taken on June 6.28 UT with the 0.41-m 'PROMPT 4' telescope
located at Cerro Tololo.  The new object, which is also present in an image
taken on June 7.27 at mag approximately 16.1 +/- 0.2, is located at R.A. =
20h32m18s.50 +/- 0".1, Decl. = -19o43'59".6 +/- 0".1 (equinox 2000), which is
about 4".8 west and 0".6 south of the center of the galaxy ESO 597-6.
Nothing is visible at this position on archival images taken on May 21.25 and
June 2.19 (limiting mag 18.5).


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