SIMBAD references

S. Nakano, Sumoto, Japan, reports the discovery by Masaki Tsuboi (Kuchita-minami, Asakita-ku, Hiroshima, Japan) of an apparent supernova (mag 15.1) on an unfiltered 20-s CCD frame (limit mag 16.4) taken on Oct. 18.856 UT using a 0.30-m f/5.3 reflector (+ ST-9XE camera). The new object is located at R.A. = 10 43 34.05, Decl. = +24 53 29.0 (equinox 2000.0), which is 40" east and 112" south of the center of NGC 3344. Nothing is visible at this position on Digitized Sky Survey images (limiting red mag 19 or fainter). The variable was designated PSN J10433405+2453290 when it was posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2012fh based on the spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Additional CCD magnitudes for 2012fh (unfiltered unless noted otherwise): Mar. 18.500, [16.7 (Tsuboi); 27.484, [16.5 (Tsuboi); Oct. 19.741, 15.3 (Tsuboi; stacked image; limiting magnitude 17.7); Oct. 20.483, 15.3 (T. Yusa, Osaki, Japan; three stacked 120-s exposures obtained remotely using a 0.25-m f/3.4 hyperbolic astrograph + SBIG ST-10XME camera at the RAS observatory near Mayhill, NM, U.S.A.; position end figures 34s.04, 29".3; UCAC-3 reference stars; image posted at website URL http://www.palette.furukawa.miyagi.jp/space/images/2012/PSNin3344_121020.jpg); Oct. 20.498, 16.0 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; luminance filter; position end figures 34s.03, 29".1; image posted at the following website URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/8106444870/); Oct. 20.788, V = 14.7, I_c = 14.6 (K. Yoshimoto, Yamaguchi-ken, Japan; 0.16-m f/6.3 reflector + SBIG ST-9XEi camera; communicated by Nakano; image posted at website URL http://orange.zero.jp/k-yoshimoto/PSN%20J10433405+2453290.jpg).