2006IAUC.8667....2N

H. Navasardyan, S. Benetti, A. Harutyunyan, F. Bufano, N. Elias-Rosa, L. Zampieri, M. Turatto, and E. Cappellaro, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica and Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, report that a spectrogram (range 370-780 nm) of SN 2006W, obtained on Feb. 7.167 UT with the Copernicus 1.82-m telescope (+ AFOSC), shows it to be a type-II supernova. The spectrum is very similar to that of the bright type II-"linear" supernova 1980K (Barbon et al. 1982, A.Ap. 116, 35), about 3 weeks after maximum light. The spectrum displays broad P-Cyg profiles from the Balmer series, but H_alpha shows only a broad (FWHM about 7400 km/s) asymmetric emission component.