Classification certificate for object 2016aqf
TNS Classification Report No. 133 [ 2016TNSCR.162....1H ]

Date Received (UTC): 2016-02-28 00:12:26
Sender: Dr. Griffin Hosseinzadeh
Group: LCOGT SN-KP

Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Yi Yang, Curtis McCully, Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell, Stefano Valenti report/s a classification of object: SN 2016aqf

Type: SN II
Redshift: 0.004

Remarks: Using SNID (Blondin & Tonry 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024), we find a good fit to the Type II SN 2004et at -3 days at the redshift of the proposed host galaxy (z=0.004; Lauberts & Valentijn 1989, The Surface Photometry Catalogue of the ESO-Uppsala Galaxies, via NED).

The following Classification spectrum was provided:

Obsdate: 2016-02-27 09:54:44
Instrument: FLOYDS-S
Telescope: Faulkes Telescope South

Details of the object and its spectra can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2016aqf