[vsolj-alert 924] Possible SN in NGC 5363?

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Possible SN in NGC 5363?

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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:24:05 +0200
From: "Berto Monard" <lagmonar@csir.co.za>
Subject: galaxy NGC 5363

Dear Taichi,

Last night I have noticed a starlike object near the core of NGC 5363,
some 20" SWS of it.
I estimated it around 13.5 magnitude.
According to my data, this galaxy is type irregular and about 20 Mpc
from us yielding SNeType Ia around magnitude 13.0

Somehow what I saw could be a foreground star, but is difficult to see
on the DSS images and those from A Wassilieff.
Is it possible that someone in Japan could check it out, possibly also
by looking at past images (not overexposed) of this galaxy.
I will appreciate any efforts to solve the uncertainty.

Possibly and hopefully this might be a new SN. If this were to be
confirmed, can you please forward any confirmation report with proper
astrometry to me and/or also IAUC.
During the week-ends I will not be able to access my e-mail.

Good luck and thanks for your always assistance...

Kind regards,

Berto Monard / Pretoria
PS it was a visual observation with a 12" telescope and I have had no
previous look at this galaxy..

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