[IAUC] CBET 1739: 20090326 : SUPERNOVA 2009ay IN NGC 6479

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1739
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SUPERNOVA 2009ay IN NGC 6479
     P. Challis, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), on behalf
of the CfA Supernova Group, reports that a spectrum (range 360-800 nm) of
2009ay (cf. CBET 1728), obtained on Mar. 25 UT by W. Brown with the F. L.
Whipple Observatory 1.5-m telescope (+ FAST), shows it to be a type-II
supernova.  The spectrum shows featureless continuum with hints of broad
H-beta and H-gamma features.  Emission from the galaxy NGC 6479 yields a
redshift that is the same as listed via NED (0.02218).


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2009 March 26                    (CBET 1739)              Daniel W. E. Green