2012CBET.3013....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 Catalina Sky Survey (CSS).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2012 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2012Y Jan. 26.41 4 50 27.83 -03 29 24.5 18.2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

The variable was designated PSN J04502783-0329245 when it was posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2012Y based on the spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Additional magnitudes for 2012Y: 2011 Nov. 28.36 UT, [19.2 (CSS); 2012 Jan. 30.096, 18.5 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; remotely using a 51-cm RCOS telescope + STL11K camera + red filter at the New Mexico Skies Observatory near Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position end figures 27s.89, 24".0). Brimacombe's image is posted at the following website URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6791541287/.