2011CBET.2725....1D

A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, M. J. Graham, and R. Williams, California Institute of Technology; J. L. Prieto, Carnegie Observatories; M. Catelan, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; E. C. Beshore and S. M. Larson, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona; and E. Christensen, Gemini Observatory, report the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey's discovery of an apparent supernova in unfiltered survey images:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2011db May 12.30 13 49 05.90 +17 14 00.5 17.4 6".4 E, 17".1 S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

This variable was designated PSN J13490590+1714005 when posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011db based on the spectroscopic report below. Further magnitudes for 2011db: Apr. 25.22 UT, [20.0 (Catalina Sky Survey); May 13.357, 17.2 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; from six stacked 1200-s images taken remotely using a 51-cm RCOS telescope + red filter + STL11K camera at New Mexico Skies Observatory near Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position end figures 05s.95, 13'59".6, which is near PGC 49027; his image is posted at the following website URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/5725585922/).