2012CBET.2993....1D

Alessandro Dimai, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on behalf of the Italian Supernovae Search Project (ISSP), reports the discovery by Fabio Briganti (Santa Croce sull'Arno, Pisa, Italy) of an apparent supernova (mag about 15.0) on unfiltered CCD images (limiting mag about 16.5) taken with the "Maioni" 0.28-m telescope of the Osservatorio Astronomico del Col Druscie at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on Jan. 22.1556 UT. The new object is located at R.A. = 14:59:59.12, Decl. = +1:53:24.4 (equinox 2000.0), which is 10" west and 1" south of the nucleus of NGC 5806. Nothing is visible at this position on Palomar Sky Survey infrared, red, and blue plates. The discovery image is posted at website URL http://tinyurl.com/7lzoeyv. The variable was designated PSN J14595904+0153251 when it was posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2012P based on the spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Additional CCD magnitudes for 2012P (unfiltered unless noted otherwise): 2011 Dec. 7, [18.0 (ISSP); 2012 Jan. 23.227, 15.2 (Briganti); 23.549, 16.3 (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 59s.09, 24".1; image posted at URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6752536997/). The type-II supernova 2004dg also appeared in NGC 5806 (cf. IAUC 8375).