[Greg Bock (Greg Bock)]

Hi All,
this must be a record. Stuart Parker discovered supernova number 38 for BOSS early this morning in ESO 462-16 (aka PGC64605). Its his fourth discovery since 26 June.
He has certainly kept me busy with analysing his images.

The interesting thing this time though is that we notified our contacts in Chile for a spectral analysis, which triggered observing runs at both Las Campanas, which confirmed it in near infra red images, and also the 8.2m Gemini South telescope at CTIO which confirmed within 12 hours of Stu's find that it was an early type 1a, about 1 week before maximum light.

It is currently about magnitude 16.3 and brightening, so it wont be a visual target for many smaller amateur scopes unless they are fitted with a camera.