2012CBET.2970....1D

A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, M. J. Graham, A. Mahabal, and R. Williams, California Institute of Technology; J. L. Prieto, Princeton University; M. Catelan, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; 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 unfiltered Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) images:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2011jt Dec. 31.54 14 53 23.01 + 2 57 43.1 17.0 5".8 W, 16".4 S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

The variable was designated PSN J14532301+0257431 when it was posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2011jt based on the spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Additional CCD magnitudes for 2011jt: 2011 June 23.25 UT, [20.3 (CSS); 2012 Jan. 1.526, 16.5 (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 23s.02, 42".9; image posted at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6618245617/).