SIMBAD references

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

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2012 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2012al Feb. 24.33 10 06 11.61 +47 17 40.6 18.1 1".6 E, 1".4 S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

The variable was designated PSN J10061161+4717406 when it was posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2012al based on the spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Additional CCD magnitudes for 2012al (unfiltered unless noted otherwise): Feb. 1.40 UT, [19.5 (CSS); 25.170, 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 11s.63, 40".4; image posted at URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6930060183/); 25.506, 17.3 (L. Elenin, Lyubertsy, Russia; and I. Molotov, Moscow, Russia; images taken remotely with a 0.45-m f/2.8 telescope at the ISON-NM Observatory near Mayhill; position end figures 11s.66 ± 0".2, 40".5 ± 0".2; NOMAD reference stars; limiting mag about 19.1); 25.909, R = 17.5 (Federica Luppi, Varese, Italy; 0.36-m f/7.9 reflector + Bessell R filter; position end figures 11s.65, 41".3; reference stars from CMC-14 catalogue; image posted at website URL http://www.astrogeo.va.it/pub/TOCP/PSN_J10061161+4717406.jpg).