Electronic Telegram No. 1612
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2008ia IN ESO 125-6
     G. Pignata, J. Maza, M. Hamuy, R. Antezana, L. Gonzalez, P. Gonzalez, P.
Lopez, S. Silva, G. Folatelli, D. Iturra, R. Cartier, and F. Forster,
Universidad de Chile; B. Conuel, Wesleyan University; and D. Reichart, K.
Ivarsen, 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 15.1 +/- 0.2) on an
unfiltered image taken on Dec. 7.27 UT with the 0.41-m 'PROMPT 3' telescope
located at Cerro Tololo.  The new object, which is also present at mag
approximately 15.2 +/- 0.2 in an image taken on Dec. 8.17, is located at R.A.
= 8h50m35s.15 +/- 0".1, Decl. = -61o16'40".6 +/- 0".1 (equinox 2000), which
is about 1".8 west and 0".2 north of center of the galaxy ESO 125-6.
Nothing is visible at this position on archival images taken on Nov. 12.32
and 26.33 (limiting mag 18.0).


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2008 December 8                  (CBET 1612)              Daniel W. E. Green