SN 2013aa

Alert Notice 479: Supernova 2013aa in NGC 5643 = PSN J14323388-4413278

February 17, 2013

Event: Supernova 2013aa in NGC 5643 = PSN J14323388-4413278

Discovered by: Stuart Parker (Canterbury, New Zealand)

Discovery Date: 2013 Feb. 13.621 UT

Discovery Magnitude
: red mag 11.9 on a 30-s unfiltered CCD image taken with a 30-cm Astro-Tech AT12RC Ritchey-Chretien astrograph (+ ST10 camera) at his Parkdale Observatory in the course of the Backyard Observatory Supernova Search (BOSS)

Aviso Especial de AAVSO #337 (actualizado): supernova brillante de tipo Ia en la galaxia NGC 5643 (Lupus)

17 de febrero de 2013: Stuart Parker (Canterbury, Nueva Zelanda), del equipo BOSS, ha descubierto una brillante supernova en la galaxia espiral NGC 5643 en la constelación de Lupus.
Originalmente el objeto fue anunciado en la página de confirmación de objetos transitorios de la CBAT, IAU donde se le dio la designación provisoria PSN J14323388-4413278.

Special Notice #337: Bright transient near the galaxy NGC 5643 (Lupus) [SN 2013aa]

February 15, 2013: As noted by Alexandre Amorim in the AAVSO Forums, a bright transient [SN 2013aa] has appeared in the fringes of the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 5643, and has been published on the Transient Objects Confirmation Page at Harvard.