[vsnet-alert 5035] SN 2000cr in NGC 5395

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

Dear SN watchers,

  Itarian automated SN seeker M. Migliardi and A. Dimai have
discovered a bright SN again (cf. SNe 2000C and 2000M).
Congratulations, Marco and Alessandro! 

  According to IAUC 7443, the SN is located at R.A. = 13h58m38s.37,
Decl. = +37o26'12".9 (2000.0, W. Li at KAIT measurements), which is
about 4" east and 45" north ot the nucleus of the interacting spiral
galaxy NGC 5395 with NGC 5394, which lies about 2' NNW.  The object is
superimposed on the bright H II region.  The magnitudes up to now are:
June 21.2  >190:
June 25.90  170:
     25.94  170:
     26.2   167:

  The spectroscopy by CfA group has revealed that it is of type II in
the early epoch.  It is consistent that it appeared in the probable
star forming region.  The recession velocity of the host (about 3400
km/s) tells that it is some neighbouring galaxy and the intrinsically
bright SN can reach to 15 mag order.  Followup magnitude estimates and
spectroscopical evolution is highly urged to study the birth place of
the massive stars in the interacting galaxies.

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

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