From owner-vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp Thu May 14 11:48 JST 1998 Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:46:58 -0700 From: bas@lowell.Lowell.Edu (Brian Skiff) Subject: [vsnet-chat 936] Prediscovery image of SN 1998bu in M96 Chuck Faranda, Florida, obtained an image of M96 on May 3.14 UT, which shows the current supernova at about mag. 16.5. The CCD image can be viewed at: http://vsnet.se.mediaone.net/~chuckfa/m96.jpg A report about this has been submitted to the Central Bureau for inclusion on an IAU Circular. \Brian