SIMBAD references

R. J. Foley, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, reports that a CCD spectrum (range 305-1000 nm), obtained on Dec. 29 UT with the 6.5-m Magellan Clay telescope (+ MagE), shows that 2008in is of type II. The spectrum shows the Balmer series, as well as a blue continuum, indicating that the supernova is relatively young. Removing the host-galaxy recession velocity of 1600 km/s (as found from narrow emission lines), the minimum of the H_alpha P-Cyg absorption is blueshifted by 9600 km/s.