2010CBET.2520....1D

Colin Drescher, Calamvale, Queensland, Australia, reports the discovery of an apparent supernova (red mag 15.6) by Stuart Parker (Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand) as a member of the Backyard Observatory Supernova Search team, on unfiltered images taken using a 35-cm Celestron C14 f/6.3 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (+ ST-10 CCD camera) on Oct. 30.614 and 30.615 UT. The new object is located at R.A. = 1:04:07.68, Decl. = -51:08:05.4 (equinox 2000.0; measured by Drescher), which is 6" east and 6" south of the nucleus of the galaxy IC 1615. Nothing is visible at this position on an image taken by Parker on Oct. 18.369 (limiting red mag 19.1).