SIMBAD references

As first announced on IAUC 8908, S. Nakano, Sumoto, Japan, reports the discovery of an apparent supernova (mag 17.2) by Yoji Hirose (Tsutsumi, Chigasaki, Kanagawa-ken, Japan) on ten unfiltered CCD frames taken around 2007 Dec. 31.669 UT using a 0.35-m f/6.8 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (limiting mag 18.0); Nakano has measured mag 17.0 and the following position for the new object from a jpeg image supplied by Hirose: R.A. = 9h09m35s.40, Decl. = +33o07'09".9 (equinox 2000.0), which is 20".6 east and 15".5 south of the center of NGC 2770. Nothing is visible at this position on Hirose's survey frames taken on 2007 Mar. 7 and Dec. 18 (limiting magnitude 18) or on Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) imagery. Hirose also reports mag 17.0 from a 25-s exposure on 2008 Jan. 1.595. Nakano adds that K. Kadota (Ageo, Japan, 0.25-m f/5 reflector) reports mag 17.3 and position end figures 35s.27, 08".9 from an unfiltered CCD image taken on 2007 Dec. 31.786; Kadota adds that there are condensed lumps (evidently H II regions) near 2007uy on red DSS images from 1998 and 2000. Nakano also writes that K. Itagaki (Takanezawa station, Tochigi-ken, Japan, 0.30-reflector) obtained an unfiltered CCD exposure on 2008 Jan. 1.651, showing 2007uy at mag 16.9 and position end figures 35s.35, 08".9. P. Corelli, Pagnacco, Italy, writes that (following posting of this object on the Central Bureau's unconfirmed- objects webpage) his four co-added 600-s CCD images of NGC 2770 taken on 2008 Jan. 1.885 with his 0.45-m f/4.5 reflector yield position end figures 35s.17, 08".9 (offset 15" east, 15" south of the galaxy nucleus) and mag 16.8; his comparison with a red Palomar Sky Survey image shows nothing at this position (limiting mag presumed to be 20-21), despite the presence of many H II regions.