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IAUC 4191: 1986 EB; Prob. NEW COMET SHOEMAKER; 1986C; 1985n; Corr

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                                                  Circular No. 4191
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
Postal Address: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
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1986 EB
     C. and E. Shoemaker have discovered a fast-moving minor planet
on films exposed with the 0.46-m Schmidt telescope at Palomar, with
the following approximate positions available:

            1986 UT           R.A. (1950.0) Decl.     B

            Mar.  4.33247     12 17.0     +28 21     14
                  5.34444     12 10.1     +27 55
                  8.23229     11 50.7     +26 35


PROBABLE NEW COMET SHOEMAKER
     The Shoemakers also report their discovery of images of a
probable new comet on 0.46-m Schmidt films, the object appearing
diffuse with central condensation and m1 ~ 15.5, m2 ~ 17.

               1986 UT           R.A. (1950.0) Decl.

               Mar.  4.33247     12 14.4     +23 40
                     8.23819     12 04.7     +24 48


SUPERNOVA 1986C IN UGC 6697
     B. Leibundgut and B. Binggeli, European Southern Observatory,
La Silla, report their discovery of a supernova in the irregular
galaxy UGC 6697 (R.A. = 11h41.2m, Decl. = +20deg15', equinox 1950.0).  The
new object lies ~ 60" north and 60" west of the galaxy's center,
and on Mar. 5.2 UT was at B ~ 18.  A prediscovery record of the
supernova from Feb. 9.3 shows it to have been brighter then.  A
spectrum taken by W. Sargent and J. Steidel on Mar. 7.2 shows the
object to be a type-II supernova past maximum light.


PERIODIC COMET BOETHIN (1985n)
     Further total visual magnitude estimates:  Feb. 6.10 UT, 7.5
(C. Spratt, Victoria, BC, 11x80 binoculars); 9.10, 8.1 (Spratt,
0.08-m refractor); 28.05, 9.4 (J. E. Bortle, Stormville, NY, 0.32-m
reflector); Mar. 1.03, 9.6 (Bortle); 2.04, 9.7 (Bortle).


CORRIGENDUM
IAUC 4190, Supernova 1986B, line 4:  for  4 +/- 1  read  6 +/- 1.


1986 March 10                  (4191)            Daniel W. E. Green

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