2011CBET.2918....2V

S. Valenti, A. Pastorello, S. Benetti, L. Tomasella, F. Bufano, and P. Ochner, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, on behalf of a larger collaboration, report that a low-signal-to-noise spectrogram of PSN J02182782+0533165 = SN 2011ih, obtained on Nov. 20.93 UT with the 1.82-m Copernico Telescope (+ AFOSC; range 340-790 nm, resolution 2.2 nm), shows that 2011ih is a type-II supernova at a redshift z = 0.030. A narrow component of H_alpha is also visible, superimposed on the broad P-Cyg profile, which is probably due to the contamination of an H II region in the host galaxy.