[vsnet-alert 5593] Re: [Fwd: SN99cl in M88?]

[Hitoshi YAMAOKA <yamaoka@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp>]

D. Bishop wrote:

>Larry just sent me this image.  It appears to show that 1999cl is
>still visible.  After the recent observation of 1999by by HST (Mag
>24.6) which was also a bright type Ia from two years ago, it looks
>like this might be in the relm of possibilities.  I would, however,
>like others to look at the images first.

As I wrote in vsnet-alert 3085 (1999 June 8), 

>The DSS2 image shows the bright HII region just 5" south from the SN,
>which would affect the photometry or the astrometry.  

The object that Larry caught would be this HII region rather than
declined SN 1999cl, I guess.

Sincerely Yours,
Hitoshi Yamaoka, Kyushu Univ., Japan
yamaoka@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp

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