THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 812 1994 Jan 30 17.51UT Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise, Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4PP,England. Telephone/FAX(0256)471074 Int:+44256471074 TELEX: 9312111261 Answerback: TA G TELECOM GOLD: 10074:MIK2885 GMH at UK.AC.RUTHERFORD.STARLINK.ASTROPHYSICS STARLINK: RLSAC::GMH GMH at UK.AC.CAM.ASTRONOMY.STARLINK STARLINK: CAVAD::GMH ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1994AM1 Brian Manning, Stakenbridge, UK reports his discovery of an asteroid which has been assigned the provisional designation of 1994AM1: 1994AM1 1994 01 02.94178 06 28 26.84 +22 15 05.9 494 1994AM1 1994 01 02.97254 06 28 24.64 +22 15 01.3 494 1994AM1 1994 01 06.93704 06 24 01.87 +22 05 00.3 494 1994AM1 C1994 01 11.92323 06 18 55.08 +21 52 24.7 494 The first three exposures were of 35 minutes on hypered 4415 with the 0.26-m reflector. PPM ref stars were used in the reduction. The fourth exposure was with the 0.20-m Wright CCD camera. 4 GSC stars, with data supplied by Rob McNaught, Australia were used in this reduction. SUPERNOVA 1994A IN UGC 8214 J. Mueller reports her discovery of a supernova of red mag about 18 located just to the north of a spiral arm in UGC 8214 (R.A. = 13h05m.7, Decl. = +62o29', equinox 1950.0). SN 1994A, which was found on a plate taken by Mueller on Jan. 11 UT with the 1.2-m Oschin Telescope in the course of the second Palomar Sky Survey, is situated 3" east and 10".1 south of the galaxy nucleus. IAUC 5923 SUPERNOVA 1994B IN ANONYMOUS GALAXY C. Pollas, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, reports his discovery of a supernova (V = 19.0) located at R.A. = 8h17m51s.64, Decl. = +15o53'20".5 (equinox 1950.0), which is 4".2 east and 3".9 north of the centre of the face-on spiral host galaxy (V = 17.5). SN 1994B was found on films taken on Jan. 16.98 and 17.94 UT with the OCA 0.9-m Schmidt telescope. A nearby star (V = 17.5) has end figures 52s.85, 54'28".7. IAUC 5923 PERIODIC COMET KUSHIDA (1994a) The following position has been obtained for Comet Kushida (1994a): 1994 01 16.06838 09 48 58.36 +02 05 56.0 978 The CCD image was obtained by Denis Buczynski and Glyn Marsh at Conder Brow Observatory but the measurement and reduction was by Nick James. The reduction used 9 GSC stars.