2011CBET.2918....1H

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 (MLS).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2011ih Nov. 19.12 2 18 27.82 + 5 33 16.5 19.5 7".1 E, 3".4 N ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

The variable was designated PSN J02182782+0533165 when it was posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011ih based on the spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Additional CCD magnitudes for 2011ih: Nov. 1.34 UT, 19.4 (MLS); 21.184, 18.4 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; luminance filter presumed; position end figures 27s.64, 16".4; image posted at URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6376386519/).