2011CBET.2702....1M

Further to CBET 2678, M. Mason, K. Lin, S. B. Cenko, W. Li, and A. V. Filippenko report the LOSS discovery of an apparent supernova on unfiltered KAIT images:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2011br Apr. 9.50 15 06 20.20 +62 59 00.6 18.2 5".2 W, 10".0 S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

This variable was designated PSN J15062020+6259006 when posted on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011br based on the spectroscopic report below. Additional CCD magnitudes for 2011br: Mar. 10.54 UT, [19.3 (KAIT); Apr. 10.48, 18.4 (KAIT); 11.133, 18.2 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; remotely using a 51-cm RCOS telescope + STL11K camera + red filter at New Mexico Skies Observatory, Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position end figures 20s.17, 00".6); 17.245, 17.8 (Brimacombe). Brimacombe's Apr. 11 image is posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/5610004688/; his image from Apr. 17 is posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/5629808506/.