SN 2002hh
SN 2002hh was discovered by the KAIT team on Oct. 31.1 UT (mag about 16.5)
and confirmed on Nov. 2.1 (mag about 16.3). The position of the new object
is about 61" west and 114" south of the nucleus of a face-on open spiral
galaxy NGC 6946. NGC 6946 produced at least 6 SNe (1917A, 1939C, 1948B,
1968D, 1969P, and 1980K) in the last century. The brightest one of these
six was SN IIL 1980K, whose maximum was B=11.6. It was below mag about
19.0 on Oct. 26.1. It was discovered during the rising phase (vsnet-campaign-sn
491). Spectra taken by The UCB team revealed that SN 2002hh is a very
young and highly reddened type II SN (vsnet-campaign-sn
493). The object was reported to be J=12.30 and Ks=11.07 on November
18 (vsnet-campaign-sn
510).
Link:
The discovery image:
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~bait/2002/sn2002hh.gif
[vsnet-campaign-sn
493]