2005IAUC.8603....1F

Six supernovae have been reported: 2005ed and 2005ef-2005ei via J. Frieman on behalf of the "Sloan Digital Sky Survey II" collaboration (J. Barentine et al.; astrometric and photometric data appear on CBET 229), on g', r', and i' images taken on Sept. 9 with the SDSS 2.5-m telescope at Apache Point Observatory; and 2005ee via V. Lipunov on behalf of his group at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (cf. IAUC 8520) on unfiltered CCD MASTER telescope images. Lipunov writes that 2005ee is located at R.A. = 23h57m55s.83, Decl. = +32o38'08".9 (equinox 2000.0), or 3" west and 5" north of the center of PGC 73054. Unfiltered CCD magnitudes for 2005ee: Aug. 25.92 UT, 16.0 (Lipunov et al.); Sept. 1.921, 16.0 (Lipunov et al.); 23.26, 16.6 (J. McGaha, Tucson, AZ, 0.36-m reflector); 24.02, 16.8 (T. Puckett, remotely with 0.20-m reflector at Osyoss, BC). Alternate measured position end figures for 2005ee: 55s.97, 14".1 (McGaha); 55s.88, 14".5 (Puckett). McGaha and Puckett each indicate that 2005ee is not present on Digitized Sky Survey images. Spectroscopy for the SDSS supernovae (each of which was predicted to have peaked in the g'-magnitude range 18.9-20.5 prior to discovery) show four of them to be of type Ia and the fifth (2005ei) a likely type-Ia supernova.