PSN J14323388-4413278

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)

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.