[IAUC] CBET 2024: 20091117 : SUPERNOVA 2009lh

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SUPERNOVA 2009lh
     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; G. Pignata, Universidad Andres Bello; B. Conuel,
Wesleyan University; and D. Reichart, K. Ivarsen, J. Haislip, A. Crain, D.
Foster, M. Nysewander, and A. LaCluyze, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, on behalf of the CHASE project, report the discovery of an apparent
supernova (mag approximately 17.7 +/- 0.4) on unfiltered images taken on
Nov. 16.27 and 17.27 UT with the 0.41-m 'PROMPT 4' telescope located at Cerro
Tololo.  The new object is located at R.A. = 9h53m22s.52 +/- 0".1, Decl. =
-18o38'26".1 +/- 0".1 (equinox 2000.0), which is about 1".3 west and 3".6
north of the center of the apparent host galaxy, which itself is a small
galaxy located to the east of NGC 3045.  Nothing is visible at this position
on archival images taken on Apr. 9.06 (limiting mag 19.0) and Nov. 4.32
(limiting mag 18.1).


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2009 November 17                 (CBET 2024)              Daniel W. E. Green