[IAUC] CBET 2028: 20091118 : SUPERNOVA 2009lk

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 2028
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SUPERNOVA 2009lk
     G. Pignata, Universidad Andres Bello; 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, 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 17.8) on unfiltered images taken on Nov. 17.13
and 18.04 UT with the 0.41-m 'PROMPT 3' telescope located at Cerro Tololo.
The new object is located at R.A. = 1h57m08s.66 +/- 0".1, Decl. = +4o05'07".3
+/- 0".1 (equinox 2000.0), which is about 2".6 west and 8".6 north of the
center of the apparent host galaxy.  Nothing is visible at this position in
a stack of thirty-one 40-s images taken between June 17.42 and Oct. 12.22
(limiting mag 20.0).


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2009 November 18                 (CBET 2028)              Daniel W. E. Green