2012CBET.3294....2T

L. Tomasella, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, P. Ochner, A. Pastorello, and M. Turatto, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, report that optical spectroscopy (range 340-820 nm; resolution 1.3 nm), obtained on Nov. 6.82 UT with the Asiago 1.82-m Copernico Telescope (+ AFOSC) by the Service Telescope Operating Team, shows that PSN J21450963+1006126 = SN 2012gf is a type-II supernova about ten days after the explosion at assumed redshift z = 0.027536 (Falco et al. 1999, PASP 111, 438; via the NED database), similar to SN 1999em (Baron et al. 2000, Ap.J. 545, 444; Elmhamdi et al. 2003, MNRAS 338, 939). The Asiago classification spectra are posted at website URL http://graspa.oapd.inaf.it; classification was made via GELATO (Harutyunyan et al. 2008, A.Ap. 488, 383) and SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024).