SIMBAD references

An apparent type-IIn supernova initially identified as an x-ray source in ESO 97-G13, and subsequently identified by F. Bauer and colleagues on numerous archival CCD images obtained with the Anglo-Australian Telescope in mid-March 1996, has been given the designation SN 1996cr (details on CBET 879). An apparent supernova reported by S. Mattila et al. from K_s-band infrared images in Sept. 2004, and designated then as PSN K0409-001 (cf. IAUC 8335), has been now designated as SN 2004ip, with additional details given on CBET 858.