2008CBET.1403....1B

S. Blondin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), on behalf of the CfA Supernova Group, reports that a spectrum (range 350-740 nm) of 2008cy (cf. CBET 1400), obtained on June 9.23 UT by P. Berlind with the F. L. Whipple Observatory 1.5-m telescope (+ FAST), shows it to be a young type-II supernova. The spectrum consists of a blue continuum with shallow P-Cyg profiles of the Balmer series and He I (587.6 nm). Cross- correlation with a library of supernova spectra using the "Supernova Identification" code (SNID; Blondin amd Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) indicates that 2008cy is most similar to the type-II-plateau supernova 1999em at one week past explosion.