SIMBAD references

Greg Bock, Backyard Observatory Supernova Search (BOSS), Windaroo, Queensland, Australia, reports the discovery of a possible supernova by Stuart Parker, Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand, as part of the BOSS program on a 30-s unfiltered CCD image taken on June 29.281 UT with a 35-cm Celestron C14 f/6.3 reflector (+ ST10 CCD camera). Colin Drescher, Calamvale, Queensland, Australia, measures the magnitude of the variable to be 17.9 and its position as R.A. = 6:48:34.96, Decl. = -64:15:54.5 (equinox 2000.0), which is 15" west and 29" north of the center of NGC 2305; nothing is visible at this position on Digitized Sky Survey red and infrared images (limiting red mag > 19). The new object was designated PSN J06483496-6415545 when it was posted on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011fn based on the spectroscopic report below.