2011CBET.2667....1B

Greg Bock, Windaroo Lakes Observatory, Queensland, reports the discovery by Stuart Parker (Canterbury, New Zealand) of an apparent supernova on a 40-s unfiltered CCD image taking using a 35-cm Celestron C14 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (+ SBIG ST10 camera), with the discovery observation tabulated below (position and magnitude measured by Bock).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2011am Feb. 27.704 12 16 26.00 -43 19 20.0 17.4 11".9 W, 6".5 N ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

Nothing is visible at this position on Digitized Sky Survey red, blue, or infrared images (limiting red magnitude > 19). When posted on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage, this variable was designated PSN J12162600-4319200, and is here designated SN 2011am based on the spectroscopic report below. Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia, reports that eight unfiltered 1200-s CCD images taken remotely on Mar. 3.619 UT with a 40.6-cm RCOS telescope (+ U9000 camera) located at Macedon Ranges Observatory, near Melbourne, Australia, yield mag 15.9 and position end figures 26s.31, 21".2 for 2011??; his image is posted at URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/5495919426/.