COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
         INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                     NUMBER 785

                                      Konkoly Observatory
                                      Budapest
                                      1973 April 25

              SUPERNOVA 1968 IN NGC 4975




    A supernova has been discovered by the writer in NGC 4975
(RA=13h05.4m, D=-4d45', 1950) while looking at a photograph taken
                   by M. Lovas on the 23rd April, 1968
                   with the 600/900/1800 mm Schmidt-
                   telescope of the Konkoly Observatory. It
                   is the same plate on which Lovas has
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                   found the supernova 1968i in NGC 4981
                   (No. 215 in Kowal and Sargent's list,
                   AJ 76, 756, 1971). Thus, for the first
                   time two supernovae were discovered on
                   just the same plate.
                        The supernova is 36"N and 12"E of
                   the centre of NGC 4975 as shown in the
Figure. Its brightness was of magnitude 15 on 23rd April, 1968.
It was definitely fainter on a plate taken two days later.





                       R.G. MNATSAKANIAN
                  Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory
                         now working at
                   Konkoly Observatory, Budapest


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