2003CBET....3....1P

T. Puckett, Mountain Town, GA; and J. Newton, Portal, AZ, report the discovery of an apparent supernova (mag 16.7) on an unfiltered CCD frame (limiting mag 20.2) taken with the Puckett Observatory 0.60-m automated patrol telescope on Jan. 11.32 UT. The candidate is located at R.A. = 12h10m57s.72, DEC. = +50o28'31".8 (equinox 2000.0), which is 65".47 west and 32".1 south of the center of NGC 4157. The new object was confirmed on CCD frames taken on Jan. 12.15 with a 0.60-m reflector, but it does not appear on unfiltered images taken by Puckett on 2001 Mar. 10, May 1 and June 24 (limiting mag about 20.5), or on Palomar Sky Survey images taken on 1995 Apr. 4 (limiting mag about 21.0), 1991 Feb. 10 and 1955 Apr. 15.