Discovery of Supernova SNF20050803-005
ATel #582; The Nearby Supernova Factory: P. Antilogus, G. Garavini, S. Gilles, 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, B. A. Weaver (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA), C. Bonnaud, E. Pecontal (Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon), N. Blanc, S. Bongard, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, L. Sauge, G. Smadja (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon), R. Kessler (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, IL), C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer (Yale)
on 17 Aug 2005; 05:57 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Peter Nugent (penugent@lbl.gov)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
Referred to by ATel #: 584
The Nearby Supernova Factory reports the discovery of SNF20050803-005 (coordinates RA=00:09:34.7, DEC=+12:45:21.4 J2000.0) in an image obtained Aug 8.5 UT with the QUEST II camera on the Palomar Oschin 48-inch telescope as a part of the JPL Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking component of the Palomar-QUEST survey. The supernova had an unfiltered magnitude of 19.7 at discovery and was confirmed photometrically on Aug 11.5 UT with the Lick 1-m Nickel Reflector.
