Electronic Telegram No. 214
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2005du
     The 'Nearby Supernova Factory' group (P. Antilogus, G. Garavini,
S. Gilles, and R. Pain, Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute
Energies de Paris; G. Aldering, S. Bailey, B. C. Lee, S. Loken, P.
Nugent, S. Perlmutter, R. Scalzo, R. C. Thomas, L. Wang, and B. A. Weaver,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley; C. Bonnaud and E.
Pecontal, Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon; N. Blanc,
S. Bongard, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, L. Sauge, and G. Smadja, Institut de
Physique Nucleaire de Lyon; R. Kessler, Kavli Institute for Cosmological
Physics, Chicago; and C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz, and A. Bauer, Yale
University) reports the discovery of an apparent supernova (mag 19.7) on
an unfiltered CCD image obtained on Aug. 8.5 UT with the QUEST II camera
on the Palomar Oschin 1.2-m Schmidt telescope (taken in the course of
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking component
of the Palomar-QUEST survey).  SN 2005du, which was confirmed
photometrically on Aug. 11.5 with the Lick 1-m Nickel reflector
and found to be a type-II via spectroscopic observations with the 5-m
Palomar reflector by A. Gal-Yam on Aug. 17, is located at R.A. =
0h09m34s.7, Decl. = +12o45'21".4 (equinox 2000.0).


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2005 September 3                 (CBET 214)               Daniel W. E. Green