srodney on 14-Jun-2019 12:17:30 GMT about SN 2016geu
The reported coordinates for SN 2016geu = iPTF16geu are incorrect. The correct coordinates are:
RA = 21 04 15.86
Dec = -06 20 24.5
which is near the center of the galaxy SDSS J210415.89-062024.7.
(see http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=SDSS+J210415.89-062024.7)
The best reference for the coordinates on this object would be the paper that presented the discovery, Goobar et al. 2017:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017Sci...356..291G/abstract
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