SIMBAD references

L. A. G. Monard, Pretoria, S. Africa, reports his discovery of an apparent supernova (mag about 14.9 ± 0.2) on unfiltered CCD images taken on Mar. 15.747 and 15.858 UT with a 0.30-m reflector. An image taken on Mar. 19.751 showed the new object at mag 15.2. SN 2006aw is located at R.A. = 5h04m18s.18, Decl. = -63o34'57".3 (equinox 2000.0), which is 7" west and 2" south of the nucleus of ESO 85-G38. Nothing is visible at this location on Monard's earlier images of this galaxy, the most recent having been taken on Feb. 16.783 (limiting red mag 18.5). Nothing is present at this location on a red Digitized Sky Survey image (limiting mag 20.5).