Electronic Telegram No. 2363
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2010ga
     Jan Vales, Crni Vrh Observatory, reports the discovery of an apparent
supernova (mag 17.3) in four unfiltered CCD images taken on July 8.92-8.96 UT
with the 60-cm f/3.3 Cichocki reflector in the course of the Comet and
Asteroid Search Program (PIKA) at the Crni Vrh Observatory.  The new object
is located at R.A. = 0h34m43s.83, Decl. = +9o54'36".1 (equinox 2000.0),
which is 17" east and 2" south of the nucleus of the galaxy designated 2MASX
J00344266+0954382.  Nothing is visible at this position on archival PIKA
images obtained on 2008 Oct. 20.04 (limiting magnitude 18.0) or on a Palomar
Sky Survey F plate from 1990 Oct. 14 (via the Digitized Sky Survey/Aladin).
Jure Skvarc, Crni Vrh Observatory, reports that a confirmation image of 2010ga
was obtained by S. Maticic at Crni Vrh Observatory on July 10.03 using a
photometric R filter, from which Skvarc measured R = 18.19 +/- 0.03.
Following posting on the Central Bureau's unconfirmed-objects webpage,
Vitali Nevski (Vitebsk, Belarus) reports that he obtained unfiltered CCD
images of 2010ga on July 9.958 with a 0.3-m reflector, yielding mag 17.7 and
position end figures 43s.82, 36".4 (USNO-B1.0 catalogue), adding that nothing
is visible at this position on a Palomar Sky Survey DSS image obtained on
1990 Oct. 14 (via the Digitized Sky Survey; limiting red mag 21).


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