2005IAUC.8462....2L

D. Lane, Saint Mary's University, reports that he and P. Gray have discovered an apparent supernova (mag about 18.0) on unfiltered CCD images taken on Jan. 12.002-12.18 UT with a 0.28-m reflector at Stillwater Lake, NS; earlier images from 2004 Dec. 17.02 also show the object near limiting mag about 18.5. SN 2005B is located at R.A. = 17h54m48s.8, Decl. = +71o32'35" (equinox 2000.0), which is approximately 18" west and 10" north of the center of UGC 11066. Nothing was visible at this location on earlier images taken on 2004 Aug. 23 and Sept. 15 (limiting mag 19.0). An independent discovery of SN 2005A (at mag 17.5) has been reported by T. Boles (cf. IAUC 8446) on an unfiltered CCD image taken on Jan. 13.227. Boles provides position end figures 48s.72, 34".5, adding that nothing is visible at this position on his images from 2004 Oct. 2 and Sept. 4 (limiting mag 19.5), and it is not present on Digitized Sky Survey plates from 1993 (limiting red mag 21.0) and 1989 (limiting blue mag 20.5).