2012CBET.2968....1N

J. Newton and T. Puckett report the discovery of an apparent supernova (mag 17.2) on an unfiltered CCD image (limiting mag 19.3) taken with a 0.40-m reflector at Portal, AZ, U.S.A., on 2011 Dec. 25.243 UT in the course of the Puckett Observatory Supernova Search. The new object is located at R.A. = 7:06:39.92, Decl. = +23:53:37.0 (equinox 2000.0), which is 2".5 west and 0".1 south of the center of UGC 3676. Puckett has posted one of their images at website URL http://www.possdata.com/PSNJ07063992+2353370.jpg. The variable was designated PSN J07063992+2353370 when it was posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011jr based on the spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Additional CCD magnitudes for 2011jr (unfiltered unless noted otherwise): 2011 Dec. 8, [19.0 (Puckett); 26.228, 17.2 (Puckett; 40-cm reflector at Portal); 29.271, 17.1 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; remotely using a 51-cm RCOS telescope + STL11K camera + luminance filter at the New Mexico Skies Observatory near Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position end figures 39s.88, 37".2; image posted at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6598519955/).