2011CBET.2631....6H

M. Henze, W. Pietsch, and V. Burwitz, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik; A. Kaur and D. H. Hartmann, Clemson University; and P. Milne and G. Williams, University of Arizona, report that M31N 2011-01a has brightened significantly from mag 16.7 on 2011 Jan. 9.11 to mag 14.9 on Jan. 11.20 UT on two sets of stacked, fifteen, 60-s R-band CCD images obtained with the robotic 60-cm telescope (+ E2V CCD camera; 2000x2000 pixels) of the Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System (Super-LOTIS, located at Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak, Arizona). The position end figures for M31N 2011-01a are 42s.66, 14".7 (uncertainty 0".3), which is 19" west and 185" north of the core of M31.