2012CBET.3281....1K

Alain Klotz, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie (IRAP), Toulouse, on behalf of the TAROT collaboration, reports his discovery of an apparent supernova (mag 19.6 ± 0.1) on public R-band images taken on June 20.36 UT with the 0.25-m TAROT robotic telescope at La Silla, Chile. The new object is located at R.A. = 19:06:51.65, Decl. = -61:42:16.3 (equinox 2000.0), which is 6" east and 12" south of the nucleus of IC 4815. Klotz has posted details at URL http://cador.obs-hp.fr/sn_tarot/PSN_J19065165-6142163/. The variable was designated PSN J19065165-6142163 when it was posted at the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2012fv based on the spectroscopic confirmation reported below. SN 2011fm also appeared in this galaxy (CBET 2807). Additional CCD magnitudes for 2012fv: June 8.34, [19 (Klotz); 26.34, R = 17.6 (Klotz); 29.708, 16.9 (Joseph Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; 41-cm RCOS telescope + STL6K camera + infrared filter filter; bandpass > 700 nm; position end figures 51s.57, 17".9; image posted at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/7474411924/); July 1.279, 16.9 (Brimacombe; position end figures 51s.60, 18".5; image posted at website URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/7499223994/); 2.16, R = 17.2 (Klotz); 8.15, 17.3 (Klotz); 26.616, 17.3 (Brimacombe; position end figures 51s.49, 17".6). Brimacombe's July 26 image is posted at the following URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/7658790172/.