[IAUC] CBET 2478: 20101004 : SUPERNOVA 2010ij IN PGC 68600

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 2478
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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SUPERNOVA 2010ij IN PGC 68600
     Denis Vida and Filip Novoselnik, on behalf of the "La Sagra Sky Survey"
(LSSS) Supernova Search Team (which includes also Luka Dukic, Ivica Skokic,
Robert Gregic, David Gostinski, Salvador Sanchez, Jaime Nomen, Reiner Stoss,
Bill Yeung, Juan Rodriguez and Miguel Hurtado), reports the discovery of an
apparent supernova (magnitude 15.9) on three CCD images (limiting mag about
20.0) taken on Sept. 15.829, 15.843, and 15.858 UT with a 0.45-m telescope.
The new object is located at R.A. = 22h20m20s.19, Decl = +17d03'22".2 (equinox
2000.0), which is 10".4 east and 4".8 south of the nucleus of the presumed
host galaxy, PGC 68600.  Nothing is visible at this position on a Digitized
Sky Survey image from 1995 July 29.35 (red plate).  An LSSS image from Sept.
15 has been posted (with the red DSS image on the right, for comparison) at
website URL http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/945/image000cj.png.  Vida adds
that Joseph Brimacombe (Cairns, Australia) has taken an image remotely with a
32-cm RCOS telescope and (+ STL6K camera) located at the Macedon Ranges
Observatory (Victoria, Australia) on Oct. 3.56, yielding mag 17.2 for 2010ij
(image posted at http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/9217/pgc68600jb.png).


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