[IAUC] CBET 1946: 20090921 : SUPERNOVA 2009ig IN NGC 1015

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 1946
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SUPERNOVA 2009ig IN NGC 1015
     S. Nakano, Sumoto, Japan, reports that SN 2009ig (cf. CBET 1918) has
brightened to magnitude 14.0 on Sept. 20.646 UT, when Yoshiteru Matsuura
(Nada-ku, Kobe, Japan) obtained two unfiltered CCD images with a 0.23-m f/10
Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector, finding the position of 2009ig to be R.A. =
2h38m11s.61, Decl. = -1d18'44".8 (equinox 2000.0).


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2009 September 21                (CBET 1946)              Daniel W. E. Green