SIMBAD references

V. Stanishev, Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofisica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, reports that a spectrum of 2008ex (cf. CBET 1470), obtained on Aug. 19.08 UT by A. Somero with the Nordic Optical Telescope (+ ALFOSC), shows it to be a young type-II supernova. The spectrum consists of a blue featureless continuum with a superimposed broad, shallow H-alpha P-Cyg profile – the minimum of which is blue-shifted by 17000 to 19000 km/s (host-galaxy recession velocity 3945 km/s, from Springob et al. 2005, Ap.J. Suppl. 160, 149).