Abstract

J. Mueller reports her discovery of an apparent supernova (mag about 18) located 7" east and 25" south of the center of NGC 410 (R.A. = 1h11m.0, Decl. = +33o09', equinox 2000.0); the IV-N discovery plate was taken on Aug. 28 UT by J. D. Mendenhall and Mueller with the 1.2-m Oschin Schmidt Telescope in the course of the second Palomar Sky Survey. M. Schmidt, D. Schneider, and R. Lucinio obtained a spectrogram of SN 1995Y with the 5-m Hale Telescope (+ 4-shooter + spectrograph) on Aug. 31, and this indicates that the supernova is of type-I and is probably several months past maximum.