SN 2002fk
A bright and rising supernova, SN 2002fk was discovered by Beijing team
(September 15.84 at 15.7mag, 17.79 at 14.5mag) and R. Kushida (September
17.719 at 15.0mag) independently. If it is of type Ia, it can become mag
14.1. The position of SN is about 12" west and 3" south of the center of
NGC 1309. NGC 1309 is a face-on spiral galaxy. The reported magnitudes
suggest that it was detected during a rising phase (vsnet-campaign-sn
475, 476,
478).
The spectroscopic observation at Bisei observatory revealed the SN Ia nature
of SN 2002fk (vsnet-campaign-sn
477). This supernova was reported to reache very bright in 13th mag
(vsnet-campaign-sn
480).