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S. Zaggia, L. Tomasella, S. Benetti, and A. Pastorello, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, report that optical spectroscopy (range 450-820 nm; resolution 1.3 nm) obtained on Nov. 15.77 UT with the Asiago 1.82-m Copernico Telescope (+ AFOSC) shows that PSN J19070073+2900166 = SN 2012gj is a type-II supernova at redshift, z, around 0.013 (Haynes and Giovanelli 1997, A.J. 113, 1197; via NED database). A good match is found with several type-II supernovae about 10 days after the core collapse. An ejecta expansion velocity of about 14000-15000 km/s is derived from the minimum of the very broad, P-Cyg profile H-alpha line. Together with the Balmer lines, Fe II features are also detected. 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).