2012CBET.3078....2C

E. Cappellaro, A. Pastorello, L. Tomasella, S. Benetti, M. Fiaschi, P. Ochner, M. Turatto, and S. Valenti, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, report that a spectrogram of PSN J15411344+1534222 = SN 2012bn, obtained on Mar. 28.13 with the Asiago 1.82-m Copernico Telescope (+ AFOSC; range 340-820 nm; resolution 2.4 nm), shows a blue continuum with relatively broad, P-Cyg H lines – similar to spectra of young type-II supernovae. In fact, adopting for the host galaxy a redshift z = 0.013513 (Falco et al. 1999, PASP 111, 438; via NED), a comparison with a library of supernovae spectra via GELATO (Harutyuyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383) shows that it is a type-II event several days after explosion.