[vsolj-alert 484] SN 1999fz in UGC 8164

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

Dear SN watchers,

  IAUC 7314 announced that Dr. Puckett and his coleagues has
discovered a new SN on Nov. 18.40.  This SN (mag 15.2 at discovery),
named as 1999fz, is located at R.A. = 13h02m16s.34, Decl. =
+78o32'29".4 (2000.0), which is 2".0 west and 1".3 south of the center
of the Sbc (or ring-shaped?) galaxy UGC 8164.  It is overposed on the
bright bulge region, and no foreground star with such brightness are
there.  

  UGC 8164 is somewhat distant galaxy (v_r = 6600 km/s).  The reported
magnitude is quite bright even if it is of typical type Ia.  It can be
due to the contamination of the nucleus of the host, or the other
reason.  The spectroscopy (has not reported) and the followup
magnitude estimates is surely important.  For the comparison stars,
GSCmag is somewhat (0.2 mag or so) brighter than the estimated
VSNETmag from USNO r and b, but the difference is rather small.  For a
while, the observers can use as the comparisons either GSC or USNO,
and the sequence should be noted for later reductions.

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

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