2011CBET.2807....1D

Colin Drescher, Calamvale, Queensland, Australia, reports the discovery of an apparent supernova by Stuart Parker (Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand) on a 30-s unfiltered CCD image taken on Aug. 22.359 UT using a 35-cm Celestron C14 f/6.3 reflector (+ ST10 camera). Drescher measured the new object's (red) magnitude to be 16.4 and its position to be R.A. = 19:06:50.17, Decl. = -61:41:57.7 (equinox 2000.0), which is 3" west and 7" north of the nucleus of the galaxy IC 4815. The variable was designated PSN J19065017-6141577 when it was posted on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011fm based on the spectroscopic report below. Additional unfiltered CCD magnitudes reported for 2011fm: 1989 Aug. 29, [20.7 (Digitized Sky Survey red plate; via Drescher); 2011 July 16.608, [18.9 (Parker; red); Aug. 23.318, 16.5 (Parker, via Drescher); 23.567, 17.9 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; position end figures 50s.10, 57".6; image posted at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6075195108/).