2008CBET.1239....2M

An independent discovery of 2008X (at mag 17.9) has been reported by D. Madison, W. Li, and A. V. Filippenko, University of California at Berkeley, on an unfiltered KAIT image taken on Feb. 7.52 in the course of the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (cf. CBET 1237); they provide position end figures 48s.30, 01".2 (offset 7".8 east, 4".3 north), adding that nothing is present on their archival image from 2007 June 24.23 (limiting mag 19.0).