2003IAUC.8146....4F

R. J. Foley, K. M. Sandstrom, W. Li, and A. V. Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley, report that CCD spectra (range 320-1000 nm), obtained on June 7 UT with the Shane 3-m telescope at Lick Observatory, reveal that SN 2003fc is probably of type Ic near maximum brightness. There is a low-contrast, broad emission feature at the expected position of H_alpha, as is sometimes the case in type-Ic supernovae (e.g., Filippenko 1992, Ap.J. 384, L37). The recession speed of the host galaxy, measured from the narrow H_alpha emission of a superposed H II region, is about 10400 km/s.