2012CBET.3102....2B

S. Benetti, A. Pastorello, L. Tomasella, P. Ochner, E. Cappellaro, M. Turatto, and S. Valenti, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica; and A. Harutyunyan, Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), report that a spectrogram of PSN J05281795+7639559 = SN 2012cb, obtained on May 5.90 UT with the TNG (+ DOLORES; range 340-800 nm; resolution 1.4 nm), indicates that this is a type-II-plateau supernova. Broad P-Cyg lines of H are clearly detected. Adopting for the host galaxy (UGC 3302) a redshift z = 0.013923 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, RC3; via NED database), a comparison with a library of supernovae spectra via GELATO (Harutyuyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383) shows that 2012cb is very similar to SN 1999gi (Leonard et al. 2002, A.J. 124, 2490) at about three weeks after the explosion.