Special Notice #337: Bright transient near the galaxy NGC 5643 (Lupus) [SN 2013aa]
February 15, 2013: As noted by Alexandre Amorim in the AAVSO Forums, a bright transient [SN 2013aa] has appeared in the fringes of the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 5643, and has been published on the Transient Objects Confirmation Page at Harvard.