Hi all,
I had a bit of luck around 11pm last night in finding the BOSS teams 40th Supernova and my personal 5th discovery.
The galaxy ESO145-04 (aka PGC66545) is located in Indus, it is a pretty edge on spiral at magnitude 14 around 140 million light years distant. The suspect SN is around magnitude 15.6
IIS imagers are invited to make follow up images that can be sent to Dave Bishop at the Bright Supernova site below.
http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/
Joe Brimacombe has a follow up image at the link below.
Greg Bock was able to get the necessary discovery data posted quickly on the Harvard TOCP site (see below).
I have attached the discovery image, it's not a Mona Lisa like many of our great imagers here on IIS are producing but it sure made me smile!
We are now awaiting a spectra to determine the type of supernova.
PSN J21185070-5738425 2012 08 03.53 * 21 18 50.70 -57 38 42.5 15.6 U 2W 17S E145-04 4 0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/7708311920/