2009CBET.1856....1M

P. Marples, Loganholme, Queensland, Australia, reports the discovery of an apparent supernova (red mag 15.9) by Stuart Parker (Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand) on a 60-s unfiltered CCD image taken on June 20.748 UT with a 35-cm Celestron C14 reflector; C. Drescher (Calamvale, Queensland) has measured the new object from the discovery image to be located at R.A. = 0:30:28.56, Decl. = -33:12:56.0 (equinox 2000.0), which is 82" east and 102" north of the center of the nucleus of NGC 134. A confirming CCD image was taken by S. Quirk (Mudgee, NSW, Australia) on June 22.64 using a 30.5-cm reflector, yielding position end figures 28s.56, 56.3 and red mag 16.2 for 2009gj. Nothing is visible at this position on a Digitized Sky Survey image from 1996 Oct. 4 (limiting red magnitude 17.6) or on a CCD image taken on 2007 Nov. 19 by G. Bock (Bannockburn, Queensland) using a 30-cm reflector (no limiting magnitude or bandpass provided).