[IAUC] CBET 1801: 20090514 : SUPERNOVA 2009eo

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1801
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SUPERNOVA 2009eo
     A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, R. Williams, and M. J. Graham,
California Institute of Technology; M. Catelan, Pontificia Universidad
Catolica de Chile; E. C. Beshore, A. Boattini, and S. M. Larson, Lunar
and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona; and E. Christensen,
Gemini Observatory, report the CRTS (cf. CBET 1792) discovery of an apparent
supernova in unfiltered Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) images:

 SN       2009 UT       R.A. (2000.0) Decl.      Mag.      Offset
 2009eo   May 13.29   14 58 07.99  + 2 26 03.3   18.1    17".8 E, 15".0 S

Further CSS magnitudes for 2009eo:  Mar. 21.40 UT, [21.0; Apr. 20.41, 18.4;
28.41, 18.4.  The apparent host galaxy has redshift z = 0.044 (Falco et al.
1999, PASP 111, 438).


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2009 May 14                      (CBET 1801)              Daniel W. E. Green