2003IAUC.8043....2F

A. V. Filippenko and R. Chornock, University of California, Berkeley, report that inspection of CCD spectra (range 310-1000 nm), obtained on Jan. 7 UT with the Keck I 10-m telescope (+ LRIS), shows that SN 2003C is of type II, shortly after the explosion. Low-contrast lines of the hydrogen Balmer series and He I 587.6-nm exhibit P-Cyg profiles superposed on a very blue continuum.