Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams

CBAT "Transient Object Followup Reports"

PSN J23022662+3231312

PSN J23022662+3231312   2013 07 27.04  *  23 02 26.62 +32 31 31.2  16.7 U    8W   6S  P214897   9 1

2013 07 31.09448

This object was observed by Federica Luppi and Luca Buzzi from Schiaparelli Observatory, Varese, Italy. In a stack of images totalling 5 minutes of unfiltered exposure time, the object has position end figures 26s.61, 31".1 and magnitude 16.5. Image posted at URL http://www.astrogeo.va.it/pub/TOCP/PSN_P214897.jpg

2013 07 31.3645

L. Elenin (Lyubertsy, Russia) and I. Molotov (Moscow, Russia) confirm an apparent supernova PSN J23022662+3231312 in PGC 214897. Object visible on 3x150sec images remotely taken at ISON-NM Observatory (Mayhill, NM, USA) with 0.45-m f/2.8 telescope + CCD (KAF09000) on July 31.3645, 2013. Object located at 23h 02m 26s.69 +/- 0".1, +32d 31' 31".5 +/- 0".09 (UCAC-4) with magnitude 15.7U (mag. limit ~20.0m). Nothing is visible at this position on the POSS and POSSII images. Image of PSN J23022662+3231312 available at http://spaceobs.org/images/TOCP/PSNJ23022662+3231312-20130731.png

2013 08 05.002

New object imaged using C14+SBIG ST9XE at Tarbatness Observatory MPC Code I81 Position RA 23 02 26.64 Dec+32 31 30.7 Mag 15.3 RC Denis Buczynski