SIMBAD references

S. Howerton, Arkansas City, KS, U.S.A.; A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, M. J. Graham, and R. Williams, California Institute of Technology; J. L. Prieto, Princeton University; M. Catelan, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; R. H. McNaught and G. Garradd, Australian National University; E. C. Beshore and S. M. Larson, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona; and E. Christensen, Gemini Observatory, report the discovery of an apparent supernova in public images from the Mount Lemmon Survey.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2011gq Sep. 26.24 21 42 28.44 -16 06 30.5 19.2 9".4 W, 7".6 N ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

This variable was designated PSN J21422844-1606305 when it was posted on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011gq based on the spectroscopic report below. Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia, reports position end figures 28s.38, 30".5 from an unfiltered CCD image taken on Sept. 27.265 UT (image at URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6191438300/). Additional unfiltered CCD magnitudes for 2011gq: Sept. 28.870, 19.2 (Federica Luppi and Luca Buzzi, Varese, Italy, 0.38-m f/6.8 reflector; position end figures 28s.41, 30".0; CMC-14 catalogue reference stars; image posted at URL http://www.astrogeo.va.it/pub/TOCP/PSN_P902335.jpg); 29.214, 19.8 (Brimacombe; image posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6196354104/).