KAIT Highlights:

• KAIT has provided supporting observations for the Hubble Space Telescope STIS (Space Telescope Infrared Spectrograph) team. The STIS team will take spectra of a lensed QSO in order to measure the absorption due to hydrogen and deuterium in an intervening galaxy. -- 5/12/97
• KAIT has searched for the optical counterpars of the gamma-ray burst GRB 970828 (see IAUC for GRB 970828 ). -- 30/08/97
• KAIT has better pointing accuracy than before because new RA and DEC encoders are installed. -- 11/01/97
• KAIT has better image quality than before because a new procedure to find out the best focus is implemented. -- 12/01/97
• KAIT has improved its supernova survey efficiency. 300 images/night is now typical. In the past 3 months KAIT has found more than 7 supernovae, all of which have been discovered by other groups earlier than our observations. The reason for this is our poor weather in winter. See below for more details. -- 02/10/98
• KAIT confirmed two SNe (SN 1998S and 1998T) of Beijing Astronomical Supernova Survey. -- 03/06/98

1997 discoveries:

• KAIT discovers supernova 1997bs in NGC3627 .
• KAIT independently found SN 1997dn, 1997dq, 1997ds, 1997ef, 1997eg, 1997ei.

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Last Updated 06/30/98 by Weidong