2010CBET.2220....1S

M. Stritzinger, N. Morrell, and M. M. Phillips, on behalf of the Carnegie Supernova Project, communicate that they have obtained a spectrum (range 350-920 nm) of 2010al (cf. CBET 2207) with the Du Pont Telescope (+ WFCCD) at the Las Campanas Observatory on Mar. 20.1 UT. The spectrum shows He II, N III, and H I emission lines at a redshift of z = 0.0161 superposed on a blue, featureless continuum. The spectrum resembles the earliest-epoch spectrum of SN 1983K (Niemela et al. 1985, Ap.J. 289, 52).