2009CBET.1874....2K

M. M. Kasliwal, California Institute of Technology; and D. K. Sahu and G. C. Anupama, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, report that a low-resolution spectrogram (range 350-900 nm), taken in poor weather conditions on July 8.703 UT with the Hanle Faint Object Spectrograph Camera on the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope, indicates that 2009hd (cf. CBET 1867) is a reddened type-II supernova. The only prominent feature is a two- component H-alpha emission (broad and narrow) that is consistent with the redshift of M66; the gaussian FWHM of this feature corresponds to a velocity of approximately 5000 km/s.